The phrase "ancestral enemy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a long-standing adversary or rival that has historical significance, often within a cultural or familial context.
Example: "The two clans have been locked in a feud for generations, each viewing the other as their ancestral enemy."
Alternatives: "heritage foe" or "historical adversary".
As Australia began to trim many opponents to three tests, West Indies, along with the ancestral enemy England, was automatically granted a series of five five-day tests.
By way of comparison, India's trade with China, another ancestral enemy, may soon pass $100 billion.In this section Europe's Achilles heel Clever steps at the border An opportunity for an opportunist Something to watch over us Crisis?
Instead, it will go to Cardiff for the finale next week to face a Wales team that knows it can not merely thwart the ancestral enemy's grand slam but even steal the championship itself if it wins by seven points or more.
But in the end of the day whoever you decide to be your ancestral enemy don't forget to pick a fight with him/her as often as you can.
DELGO Freddie Prinze Jr. lends his voice to the title character in this animated fantasy about a prince of the terrestrial Lockni people who falls in love with a princess (voiced by Jennifer Love Hewitt) of the winged Nohrin tribe, the Locknis' ancestral enemies.
The theme would be "Feasting the Enemy," with each guest bringing a dish native to her ancestral foe.
But the decisions were not general, about all immigrants or all people with ancestral relations to enemy nations, respectively; they relied on immutable, ascribed characteristics that were stigmatized and scorned.
The community plot shows that the novel gall types were subsequently tracked and colonized by parasitic lineages that apparently were derived mainly from the ancestral pool of enemies.
One-way ANOVA was used to see whether there were differences in yield between ancestral, phage-only, multi-enemy and no-enemies bacteria.
Bacteria that had evolved in the absence of enemies had a higher yield than ancestral, phage-only or multi-enemy bacteria (F3,109 = 55.608, p < 0.001, Figure 3 b; ancestor vs. no enemies: p < 0.001; phage-only vs. no-enemies: p < 0.001; phage-only vs. no-enemies: p < 0.001).
