Usually means: Transmission of traits from ancestors.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word heredity:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. heredity: Merriam-Webster
  2. heredity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heredity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heredity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heredity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heredity, heredity: Wordnik
  7. heredity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heredity: Wiktionary
  9. heredity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heredity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heredity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heredity: Dictionary.com
  13. heredity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heredity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heredity (album), Heredity (disambiguation), Heredity (film), Heredity (journal), Heredity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heredity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heredity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heredity: Rhymezone
  19. Heredity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heredity: FreeDictionary.org
  21. heredity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. heredity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. heredity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heredity (cont. by William Daniels), heredity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heredity (cont. by William Daniels), heredity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. heredity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heredity: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Heredity: Diabetes Dictionary
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  8. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. Heredity (cont. by William Daniels), heredity: Medical dictionary
  12. Heredity: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heredity: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Heredity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. heredity: Evolution Glossary
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heredity: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See heredities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

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