EGAVE

hereditary

About 6.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
  2. adjective Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
    Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
  3. adjective Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
    hereditary rulers
  4. adjective Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
    Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
  5. adjective Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
  6. adjective Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
  7. noun A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Similar words

patrimonial inherited heritable inheritable ancestral familial transmitted genetic transmissible prince

Often followed by

and right in factors succession prince monarchy transmission or

Word family

hereditarily

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