Ancestral is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 687 anagrams from letters in ancestral (aacelnrst).
1425-75; late Middle English aunce(s)trel Middle French, equivalent to ancestre ancestor + -el -al1
There is an ancestral homestead, but it has a meth lab in the barn.
Here, after eighteen years, was he again in his ancestral home of Marleigh.
That is to say, the ancestral genes, the ancestral strain of inheritance, appears again in these little children.
The Nevilles' music, inspired by the ancestral rhythms of their city, is mostly pop, funk, and soul.
The Oklahoma Kiowa have joined this warpath; the Yellowstone is their ancestral homeland.
"I'll take you up and show you our ancestral hut," declared Bob Martin.
So with ethnicity, for example, it means they were targeted because of an ancestral, cultural, social, or national affiliation.
Any ancestral quality now lost is lost from the line forever.
They come from all parts of the world, in an ancestral sense.
We turn, like loyal disciples of Taine and Sainte-Beuve, to his ancestral stock.
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