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US
/hɝˈɛdəˌtɛɹi/
]
[ UK /hɪɹˈɛdɪtəɹi/ ]
[ UK /hɪɹˈɛdɪtəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
hereditary monarchy
transmissible tradition
ancestral home
patrimonial estate
ancestral lore -
occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
genetically transmitted features
an inherited disease
familial traits
How To Use hereditary In A Sentence
- The hereditary principle is only as good as heredity's next spin of the wheel.
- The ascension to the throne of a chief or headperson is hereditary.
- Koité, from Northwestern Mali, is a member of the hereditary Mande caste of musicians and craftsmen known as jalis.
- Most data sets utilized in the study of hereditary diseases are constructed around probands, making correction for ascertainment bias necessary; this set of data is no exception.
- She said that while multiple sclerosis was not hereditary or genetic there was a greater chance of developing it if a parent was a sufferer.
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency: a hereditary disease that can cause hepatitis and liver failure. Who needs a liver transplant?
- The disease is not hereditary. Times, Sunday Times
- MS is not hereditary but can occur in more than one family member, suggesting a genetic predisposition.
- Heathcliff, who, kinless and kithless, was in the end compelled to see the property he has so cruelly amassed descend to his hereditary enemies. Emily Brontë
- Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual. Politics
