What is hereditary?
What is hereditary?
- Law Descending from an ancestor to a legal heir; passing down by inheritance.
- Law Having title or possession through inheritance.
- Transmitted or capable of being transmitted genetically from parent to offspring: a hereditary disease.
- Appearing in or characteristic of successive generations.
- Derived from or fostered by one's ancestors: a hereditary prejudice.
- Ancestral; traditional: their hereditary home. See Synonyms at innate.
- Of or relating to heredity or inheritance.