hereditary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hereditary /hɪˈrɛdɪt(ə)ri/
▶adjective
- 1 conferred by, based on, or relating to inheritance.
■ (of a characteristic or disease) able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants.
- 2 Mathematics (of a set) defined such that every element which has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set.
– derivatives
hereditarily adverb,
hereditariness noun.
hereditarily adverb,
hereditariness noun.
'hereditary' also found in these Oxford entries:
achondroplasia
- aristocracy
- baroness
- baronet
- burgrave
- caste
- Champion of England
- cystic fibrosis
- duke
- dynast
- dynasty
- factor
- haemochromatosis
- Harijan
- Huntington's disease
- knight
- legitimate
- Lord Great Chamberlain of England
- Marfan's syndrome
- margrave
- muscular dystrophy
- nature
- Nizam
- pariah
- porphyria
- prepotent
- retinitis pigmentosa
- shogun
- sickle-cell anaemia
- surname
- thalassaemia
- thane
