Usually means: Related to one's family predecessors.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word ancestral:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ancestral: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ancestral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ancestral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ancestral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ancestral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ancestral, ancestral: Wordnik
  7. ancestral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ancestral: Wiktionary
  9. ancestral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ancestral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ancestral: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ancestral, ancestral: Dictionary.com
  13. Ancestral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ancestral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ancestral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ancestral: Rhymezone
  17. Ancestral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ancestral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ancestral: Free Dictionary
  20. ancestral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ancestral: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. ancestral: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancestral: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. ancestral: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancestral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ancestral: Medical dictionary

(Note: See ancestrally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ancestral)

adjective:  Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors
noun:  An ancestor or forbear.
noun:  (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
noun:  An elderly relative.
noun:  (biology) A genetic precursor.
noun:  A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
noun:  An earlier version of something.
noun:  The spirit of one's ancestor.
noun:  One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
noun:  (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.

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