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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;
- Example: "ancestral home"
- Example: "ancestral lore"
- Example: "hereditary monarchy"
- Example: "patrimonial estate"
- Example: "transmissible tradition"
[syn: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible]

2. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ancestral \An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), a.
   Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor
   or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees."
   --Hemans.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ancestral
    adj 1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually
           legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral
           lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate";
           "transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral,
           hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible]
    2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor