Usually means: Traits passed down through generations.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word hereditary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hereditary: Merriam-Webster
  2. hereditary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hereditary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hereditary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hereditary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hereditary, hereditary: Wordnik
  7. hereditary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hereditary: Wiktionary
  9. hereditary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hereditary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hereditary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hereditary: Dictionary.com
  13. hereditary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hereditary (film), Hereditary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hereditary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hereditary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hereditary: Rhymezone
  18. hereditary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hereditary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hereditary: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hereditary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hereditary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hereditary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hereditary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. hereditary: Legal dictionary
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hereditary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hereditary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  8. hereditary: Medical dictionary
  9. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  10. hereditary: Dictionary of Cancer Terms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hereditary, hereditary: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See hereditarily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
adjective:  Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
adjective:  Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
adjective:  Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
noun:  A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

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