ancestral

adj.

祖先的；与祖先有关的；祖宗传下的；

ancestral temple祠堂；宗庙；宗祠

ancestral home祖籍；原籍

ancestral hall宗祠；祠堂

1. Her ancestral home is China.
   她的祖居是中国。
2. They kept their ancestral customs.
   他们保持了祖辈的习俗。
3. We should study our ancestral achievements.
   我们应该学习祖先的成就。
4. They sold their ancestral estate long ago.
   他们祖上传下来的产业早就变卖掉了。
5. We hold the ancestral rights on this herbal medicine.
   我们对这种中药享有祖传的权利。

Ancestral polyploidy in seed plants and angiosperms
Estimating ancestral population parameters.
Reconstructing ancestral character states: a critical reappraisal.
Bayesian estimation of ancestral character states on phylogenies.
Two Rounds of Whole Genome Duplication in the Ancestral Vertebrate
Sea anemone genome reveals ancestral eumetazoan gene repertoire and genomic organization.
The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla.
Squared-Change Parsimony Reconstructions of Ancestral States for Continuous-Valued Characters on a Phylogenetic Tree
The Maximum Likelihood Approach to Reconstructing Ancestral Character States of Discrete Characters on Phylogenies
An Introduction to Phylogenetically Based Statistical Methods, with a New Method for Confidence Intervals on Ancestral Values