About The Word Hereditary
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Hereditary
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What's The Definition Of Hereditary?
[adj] inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
[adj] tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" Synonyms | Synonyms for Hereditary: ancestral | familial | genetic | heritable | inheritable | inherited | patrimonial | transmissible | transmitted Related Terms | Find terms related to Hereditary: ancestral | atavistic | bequeathed | bodily | born | coeval | congenital | connatal | connate | connatural | constitutional | genetic | genic | handed down | heritable | in the blood | inborn | inbred | incarnate | indigenous | inheritable | inherited | innate | instinctive | instinctual | matroclinous | native | native to | natural | natural to | organic | patrimonial | patroclinous | physical | plasmatic | plasmic | primal | protoplasmic | temperamental | traditional | transferable | transmissible | willed See Also | Hereditary In Webster's Dictionary \He*red"i*ta*ry\, a. [L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas
heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F.
h['e]r['e]ditaire. See {Heir}.]
1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to
an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or
that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or
crown.
2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a
constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a
child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
Syn: Ancestral; patrimonial; inheritable.
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