hereditary

IPA: hɝˈɛdʌtɛri

Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
(mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Examples of "hereditary" in Sentences

She was the direct descendant of the Great _Maguinoó_, or Prince of Luzon, a title hereditary, according to tradition.
Her brother was King James's Chief Cupbearer for Ireland, a title hereditary in the Butler family, as their name implies.
Henry Slootmaker said he is on medical leave after a hospital stay for what he described as a hereditary nervous disorder.
On the English side, it can now mean that too, but it also (especially with the prefix high‑) means “class” as in hereditary status.
The term hereditary is applied to diseases such as hemophilia and characteristics such as the tendency toward baldness that pass from parents to children.
It is true that Morgan's combination rule, according to which certain hereditary dispositions are more or less firmly combined, limits to a large degree Mendel's second rule that, at the formation of new hereditary substances, the genes may be freely combined.
We say they mainly originate in a creature through a sense of its needs, and vary through the varying surroundings which will cause those needs to vary, and through the opening up of new desires in many creatures, as the consequence of the gratification of old ones; they depend greatly on differences of individual capacity and temperament; they are communicated, and in the course of time transmitted, as what we call hereditary habits or structures, though these are only, in truth, intense and epitomised memories of how certain creatures liked to deal with protoplasm.