- pertaining to ancestors; descending or claimed from ancestors: an ancestral home.
- serving as a forerunner, prototype, or inspiration.
- of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors
- a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y
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