Sekirov Dictionary

hereditary

UK /həˈɹɛdɪt(ə)ɹi/US /həˈɹɛdɪˌtɛɹi/

adjective 6
noun 1
forms 3

adjective6

Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
•
Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
- Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
•
Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
- Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
•
Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
- hereditary rulers
Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

noun1

A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

forms

hereditaries · more hereditary · most hereditary

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