ancestral

the family's ancestral home.

Imperial Ancestral Temple

the eyes could be an ancestral throwback.

ancestral home; ancestral lore; hereditary monarchy; patrimonial estate; transmissible tradition.

the only records of the ancestral forms are their fossils.

The main purpose of the project is to reconstruct the roof, to repave the floor and to carry out the internal and external redecoration and minor repairs and restorations of the Tang Ancestral Hall.

The branching points of the cladogram may be regarded either as an ancestral species (as in an evolutionary tree) or solely as representing shared characteristics.

The special body plan of Yunnanozoon is almost identical to that of the living enteropneust hemichordate Balanoglossus,which suggests that the earlyCambrian creature is ancestral to the hemichordates.

This duplication acceleration within the ancestral species is significant when compared to lineage-specific rate estimates even after accounting for copy-number polymorphism and homoplasy.

This is an old estate, ancestral estate dating back to the 14th century.

Anyway, I deeply love Fuzhou, my ancestral home.

My ancestral home is so endearing.

The traitorous scroll that snatched the crown from her ancestral line.

Here we are 185 million generations ago at our ancestral fish.

These events are no longer the product of an ancestral land conflict.

Push backwards through time and these ancestral debts begin to add up.

In their ancestral home, many escaped up their sacred Mount Sinjar.

Most human genetic diversity is found within Africa, the species' ancestral homeland.

Its ancestral genus Mionictis, first roamed the Earth around 30m years ago.