形容词

1. 祖先的；祖传的
You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.

1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

e.g. ancestral home
ancestral lore
hereditary monarchy
patrimonial estate
transmissible tradition

Synonym: hereditarypatrimonialtransmissible

2. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor