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adjective. Of or relating to heredity or inheritance.

adjective. Transmitted or capable of being transmitted genetically from parent to offspring.

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adjective. Passed down from one generation to the next.

adjective. Being such or possessed by reason of birth.

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adjective. Capable of being inherited.

adjective. Descending from an ancestor to a legal heir; passing down by inheritance.

adjective. Having title or possession through inheritance.

In law: Descending by inheritance; transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law; passing to or held by an heir or heirs: as, a hereditary monarchy, office, or estate; hereditary privileges; hereditary bondage.

Holding by inheritance; deriving from ancestors by force of law, as rank, social condition, or property: as, a hereditary peer, proprietor, or bondman.

Pertaining to or resulting from successive generation; transmitted in a line of progeny; passing naturally from parent to offspring: as, hereditary descent; a hereditary line; hereditary features, qualities, or diseases.

Native; patrimonial; ancestral: as, one's hereditary home or occupation; a hereditary opinion or prejudice.

Acting from natal tendency or endowment; having inherited the character or qualifications of; being by force of birth: as, the Bachs were hereditary musicians; the Rothschilds are hereditary financiers.

adjective. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance.

adjective. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child.

adjective. which is passed on as inheritance, by last will or intestate

adjective. legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

adjective. holding a legally hereditary title or rank

adjective. passed from a parent to offspring in the genes

noun. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

adjective. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

adjective. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

"The term hereditary is applied to diseases such as hemophilia and characteristics such as the tendency toward baldness that pass from parents to children."

act of the hereditary excise  congenital  hereditary monarchy  

heritable  inheritable  

heir  heiress  heredity  heritage  inherit  

hereditarily  hereditariness  hereditary disease  hereditary peer  

aristocratic  ecclesiastical  feudal  inherent  innate  

ancestral  ancestral  atavistic  bequeathed  bodily