Ancestral

What do we mean by ancestral?

Of, relating to, or evolved from an ancestor or ancestors. adjective

Pertaining to ancestors or progenitors; descending or claimed from ancestors: as, an ancestral estate; ancestral trees; a king on his ancestral throne.

In biology, of or pertaining to an ancestor; being an earlier, and presumably lower or more generalized, type from which later more specialized forms of organized beings are asserted to have been evolved.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors. adjective

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. adjective

Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent adjective

Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor adjective

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors

Memories of something you did, saw, smelled, tasted, or heard that you Really never experienced before. These memories must have come from your ancestors & somehow passed down thru DNA. Upon researching the family tree, it was evident that my ancestors had indeed experienced what I did! Urban Dictionary

I had to define this today in science... If you do to, it means a species that is the ancestor of another decsending species. Urban Dictionary

Population of ancestors Urban Dictionary

Sarcastically used to refer to steroids. A reference to a fitness influencer named Liver King, who claimed to have achieved his physique 100% naturally by eating raw liver and following an ancestral lifestyle, when in reality he was taking over $10,000 of steroids per month. Urban Dictionary

Population of ancestors Urban Dictionary

When your DNA becomes activated from inherited trauma that was encoded into your ancestors DNA during events they’ve experienced. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to ancestral:
ancestral, ancestry, ancestorial, incestual, anastral.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ancestral:
mau, spirits, pueblo, homeland, posthumous, ancestors, lineage, rites, ancestor, phylogenetic, clade, lands, trait, tablets, clan, shrine, deities, evolutionary, rituals, descendants, worship, genome, roots, traits, reconstruction, peoples, genes, gods, ancestry, domains, sin, home, genetic, hometown, gene, origins, canyon, evolved, ago, tribe, generations, indigenous, traditions, castle, domain, evolution, seat, estates, ties, homes, surname, duke, ruler, mansion, origin, burial, temple, customs, humans, beliefs, dynasty, grandfather, succeeded, dna, manor, spirit, estate, derived, indians, rebellion, heritage.

Words that rhyme with ancestral:
kestrel, orchestral, estral, zestril.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ancestral:
common, more, own, old, french, same, single, most, ancient, personal, primitive, maximum, likely, hypothetical, certain, particular, deep, real, strong, traditional, weak, remote, fine, earlier, beloved, functional, loud, innumerable, original, hominid, smallest, racial, homage, wild, extinct, older, proud, chinese, putative, voyaging, powerful, native, aboriginal, immoveable, dead, language, sacred, cultural, african, parental, generalized, automatic, moveable, fossil, separate, female, proper, primate, viable.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ancestral:
home, spirits, lands, land, property, worship, form, temple, homeland, homes, hall, spirit, forms, line, species, stock, estate, house, tablets, type, faith, gods, language, religion, village, traditions, heritage, halls, gene, rites, history, cult, past, roots, customs, condition, ghosts, tradition, shrine, estates, voices, culture, beings, custom, domain, memory, population, castle, temples, graves, portraits, name, lines, seat, tree, lineage, shrines, types, origin, memories, inheritance, acres, tablet, ties, villages, homelands, rights, mansion, traits, tombs, altar, deities, names, characters, god, territory, figures, origins, environment, wisdom, beliefs, pride, populations, laws, grounds, languages, background, soil, throne, farm, sacrifices, houses.

Words that sound like ancestral:
ancestral, ancestrally, ancestry, ancestors, ancestor, ancestress, ancestries, ancestorial, unsettle, anise tree, anastole, astral, unsubtle, sinistral, ministral, insister, astrol, campestral, anhedral.