ancestral

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Seated inside his small brick house in this southern coastal town -- ancestral home of the President and where development activity has sprung up all over -- Premachandra says he and his colleagues have no objection to an airport in the area since that will help develop the region and provide jobs.

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

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  • Watchful Fiona begins to question Jamie's dire fate as she explores the ancestral isle. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • Being a "Christian" isn't an ethnic, ancestral, or nominal thing for many, if not most, Christian-Americans. —  Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • This one-hour journalistic exploration by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell takes the viewer beyond the headlines and into the daunting, determined minds and hearts of Hamas, a movement formed in 1987 with one declared aim - to destroy the hard-won New State of Israel through Jihad: through applied resistance to Israels occupation of what Palestinians perceived - and perceive - as their ancestral land. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • In many cases, a single ancestral organism can give rise to numerous other genetically distinct organisms. —  Wired Top Stories
  • For instance, let's say that our ancestral organism, organism A, lives happily in a nice tropic environment. —  Wired Top Stories
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  1. Early modern English also ancestrel, ancestrell, auncestrell, from Old French ancestrel, from ancestre, ancestor: see ancestor and -al.
 

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/ænˈsɛstrəl/
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