ancestral

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ancestral
    adj 1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually
           legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral
           lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate";
           "transmissible tradition" [syn: {ancestral},
           {hereditary}, {patrimonial}, {transmissible}]
    2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ancestral \An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), a.
   Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor
   or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees."
   --Hemans.
   [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

ANCESTRAL. What relates to or has, been done by one's ancestors; as homage
ancestral, and the like.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "ancestral":
      aboriginal, ancestorial, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous,
      fatherlike, fatherly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental,
      humanoid, maternal, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, parental,
      paternal, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric,
      prehuman, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive,
      primordial, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman

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