Thus, it is not just an ancestral trait, but a recently evolved distinguishing trait.

Symplesiomorphy - an ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa.

Most hound type dogs share the common ancestral trait of being used for hunting.

A plesiomorphy refers to the ancestral trait on its own, usually in reference to another, more derived trait.

This is supported by several studies, some of which also purport arbuscular mycorrhizas to be the ancestral trait.

They retained that ancestral trait out of pure necessity.

Remains of ancestral traits often appear and disappear in different stages of the embryological development process.

Five toes is an ancestral trait for Mammalia as a whole.

You might refer to your cultural or ancestral traits as being in your blood.

The latter bears the most ancestral traits, so it is often considered a sister group or stem group of the other adapiforms.