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▸ noun: (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
▸ noun: (uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
▸ noun: (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
▸ noun: (programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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heritage,
inheritence,
heritance,
inherit,
inheritable,
disinheritance,
patrimony,
heirship,
bequest,
bequeath,
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autosomal,
dominant,
recessive,
genetic,
multiple,
mendelian,
cultural,
linked,
common,
biological,
rich
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