Ancestral vs Derived - What's the difference?
ancestral | derived |
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
(systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
(comparable, archaic, taxonomy) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
product of derivation
(derive)
As adjectives the difference between ancestral and derived
is that ancestral is of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate while derived is of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.As a verb derived is
past tense of derive.ancestral
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Alternative forms
* ancestrall (obsolete) * auncestral (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Anagrams
* ----derived
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The French language is derived from Latin.