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   What does hereditary mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! HEREDITARY definition: 1. (of characteristics or diseases) passing from a parent to a child through the genes : 2. (of…. Learn more.

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   What is a hereditary disease?

   • A hereditary characteristic or illness is passed on to a child from its parents before it is born. Cystic fibrosis is the commonest fatal hereditary disease. In men, hair loss is hereditary. A title or position in society that is hereditary is one that is passed on as a right from parent to child. The position of the head of state is hereditary.

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   Are things that are hereditary inherited?

   • Things that are hereditary are inherited — passed down through the DNA of your biological parents. Has anyone ever said "You have your mom's eyes" or "Wow, you look like your grandfather"? They're commenting on hereditary features — things you got from your parents, and their parents, and all the other family genes you carry.

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   What are hereditary features?

   • They're commenting on hereditary features — things you got from your parents, and their parents, and all the other family genes you carry. Hair color, height, and even parts of your personality tend to be hereditary, or passed down genetically.

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   What is a hereditary position?

   • A title or position in society that is hereditary is one that is passed on as a right from parent to child. The position of the head of state is hereditary. British Prime Ministers are traditionally offered hereditary peerages. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   What is a hereditary title?

   • a hereditary title. a hereditary enemy. Law. descending by inheritance. transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law. a hereditary proprietor. Mathematics. (of a collection of sets) signifying that each subset of a set in the collection is itself a set in the collection.

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   (of characteristics or diseases) passing from a parent to a child through the genes : a hereditary disease. Depression is often hereditary. It is possible that her heart condition is hereditary. (of titles and positions in society) passing from a parent to a child as a right:

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     HEREDITARY meaning: 1. (of characteristics or diseases)...

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     HEREDITARY translate: （特點或疾病）遺傳的;（稱號或爵位）世襲的. Learn more in...

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     HEREDITARY translate: hereditário, hereditário. Learn more...

   • Cambridge Learner's Dictionary

     HEREDITARY definition: 1. passed to a child from its parents...

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   The meaning of HEREDITARY is genetically transmitted or transmittable from parent to offspring. How to use hereditary in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Hereditary.

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   A hereditary characteristic or illness is passed on to a child from its parents before it is born. Cystic fibrosis is the commonest fatal hereditary disease. In men, hair loss is hereditary. A title or position in society that is hereditary is one that is passed on as a right from parent to child.

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   Hereditary definition: passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes. See examples of HEREDITARY used in a sentence.

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   HEREDITARY meaning: 1. (of characteristics or diseases) passing from a parent to a child through the genes : 2. (of…. Learn more.

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   adjective. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity. synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted. heritable, inheritable. capable of being inherited. adjective. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent. “ hereditary monarchy”.

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   HEREDITARY definition: 1. passed to a child from its parents before birth: 2. passed from parent to child as a right: . Learn more.