ancestral
Example Sentences
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Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.
Now living in the Nioronigué camp, he said that leaving his ancestral land hurt him deeply, but he sees no future back home for his family.
From BBC
"I pray and hope that peace will prevail... that people of all faiths will coexist forever," Biswas, 92, said outside her ancestral home in Abhaynagar, where three generations of her family were born.
From Barron's
These genes all originated from a single ancestral globin gene that existed around 800 million years ago.
From Science Daily
In centralizing their worlds, Morrison made serious explorations into the effects of personal and ancestral trauma.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
