ancestral Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
    patrimonial; transmissible; hereditary.
    • ancestral home
    • ancestral lore
    • hereditary monarchy
    • patrimonial estate
    • transmissible tradition
  2. adjective of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

WordNet

An*ces"tral adjective
Definitions
  1. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

Webster 1913