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hereditary
[ huh-red-i-ter-ee ]
adjective
- passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Compare congenital.
Blue eyes are hereditary in our family.
- of or relating to inheritance or heredity:
a hereditary title.
- existing by reason of feeling, opinions, or prejudices held by predecessors:
a hereditary enemy.
Synonyms: ,
- Law.
- descending by inheritance.
- transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law.
- holding title, rights, etc., by inheritance:
a hereditary proprietor.
- Mathematics.
- (of a collection of sets) signifying that each subset of a set in the collection is itself a set in the collection.
- of or relating to a mathematical property, as containing a greatest integer, applicable to every subset of a set that has the property.
hereditary
/ -trɪ; hɪˈrɛdɪtərɪ /
adjective
- of, relating to, or denoting factors that can be transmitted genetically from one generation to another
- law
- descending or capable of descending to succeeding generations by inheritance
- transmitted or transmissible according to established rules of descent
- derived from one's ancestors; traditional
hereditary feuds
- maths logic
- (of a set) containing all those elements which have a given relation to any element of the set
- (of a property) transferred by the given relation, so that if x has the property P and xRy, then y also has the property P
hereditary
/ ə-ĕ′ĭ-ĕ′ē /
- Passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring by means of genes.
hereditary
- A descriptive term for conditions capable of being transmitted from parent to offspring through the genes . The term hereditary is applied to diseases such as hemophilia and characteristics such as the tendency toward baldness that pass from parents to children.
Derived Forms
- ˈ徱ٲ, adverb
- ˈ徱ٲԱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ···ٲ·· [hi-red-i-, tair, -, uh, -lee, -, red, -i-ter-], adverb
- ·i·ٲi·Ա noun
- ԴDzh·i·ٲi· adverb
- non·i·ٲi·Ա noun
- ԴDzh·i·ٲy adjective
- ܲȴ-·i·ٲy adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of hereditary1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The government is attempting to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the House of Lords whose presence it has described as "outdated and indefensible".
Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan V will be the 50th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, who say they are direct decedents of the Prophet Muhammad.
Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili Muslims, who trace his lineage directly to the Prophet Muhammad.
Doctors told Smith the sudden hair loss was hereditary, which didn’t provide much comfort considering the men in his family had full heads of hair well into old age.
He told the i newspaper in 2023 that he had lost his sight completely by the age of 22, from a hereditary condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which his grandmother and mother also had.
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