ancestral
Example Sentences
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These days, Greenlanders are shocked by how few words their brethren can speak in their ancestral tongue—and by the poverty of Native Americans in Alaska.
A similar shift appears in some wolf and fox species, which practice forms of social monogamy and cooperative care, even though their ancestral canids were likely group-living and polygynous.
From Science Daily
As an Iranian-American who knows the history of my ancestral country, I call them a revolution, one that is rooted in memory as much as rage.
From Salon
What would the momma polar bears do for dens when wildfires destroyed their ancestral denning sites?
From Literature
As recently as the 1940s, involuntary mass transfers of populations from their ancestral homes formed part of the diplomatic tool kit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
