hereditary

hereditary has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• a.. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
• a.. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
• a.. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
• a.. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"