Ancestral and Common

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Ancestral adjective - Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor.

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Common and ancestral are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Common" instead an adjective "Ancestral".

Nearby Words: ancestry, ancestor, ancestrally

Common adjective - Often observed or encountered.

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Ancestral and common are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancestral" instead an adjective "Common".

Ancestral Recall was the only one to not be a common card, and the only one never reprinted.

Source: Game Breaker / Magic: The Gathering
Petting Zoo People: Humans are very rare in the Ancestral World, while anthropomorphic animals are very common.

Source: Literature / The Ancestral Trail
Pali in turn may be ancestral to Sinhala, the most common native tongue in Sri Lanka.

Source: Sacred Language

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