ancestral
adjective
ancestrally
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a word derived from
ancestral.
Example Sentences
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"Most frogs are nocturnal, and so ancestrally, they really have this visual system that's adapted to these nocturnal environments," he says.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
While not accusing the company of any wrongdoing, Ms Claridge said: "Conservation of these lands should be undertaken by the communities who ancestrally own them and who know how to do so."
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
We know, either directly or ancestrally, that it’s connected with something holy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
"Although they had higher metabolic rates ancestrally, ornithischians reduced their metabolic abilities towards ectothermy," the authors wrote.
From Salon ● May 29, 2022
Eminent personages like Lord Rosebery, ancestrally connected with ancient demesnes, long perverted into pigsties, had been induced to repurchase them, thus restoring an archaic flavour of aristocratic prestige to these despised quarters.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
