ancestral

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors

an ancestral estate

one’s ancestral home

An ancestor or forbear.

Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals.

I thought of the strange two-dimensional world these forebearing ancestrals had to live in.

A descendant of one's ancestors.

He considered that the local custom permitted a sister's son to inherit in default of near male ancestrals.

But ancestrals cannot be willed away .

An elderly relative.

Cadwy and some of the ancestrals carried Gilbert back to the platform to have his wounds healed by Guinevere.

A genetic precursor.

The intermediate nature of the gene frequencies of the populations in the two groupings to those of the putative ancestrals, Table 4, indicates the Mestizo gentic constitution of the MMA populations and supports previous information for this area (Garza-Chapa 1983b)

All the ancestrals with unknown origin or pedigree were included within this group.

A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.

It is hard, remember, to match the craft and proficiency of the ancestrals' bare-bones protocols of turning grapes into raisins, of mastering heat, dirt, and moisture to produce a natural and inexpensive candy.

Ancestrals were planters and irrigators, but more cosmopolitan.