hereditary
世袭的,世袭,遗传性,遗传
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Definitions
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- : passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family.Compare congenital.
- : of or relating to inheritance or heredity: a hereditary title.
- : existing by reason of feeling, opinions, or prejudices held by predecessors: a hereditary enemy.
- : Law. descending by inheritance.transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law.holding title, rights, etc., by inheritance: a hereditary proprietor.
- : Mathematics. signifying that each subset of a set in the collection is itself a set in the collection.of or relating to a mathematical property, as containing a greatest integer, applicable to every subset of a set that has the property.
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Examples
Much of this unwritten Constitution had deep roots in hereditary political powers of kings and noblemen.
He didn’t want to go through that again, and he didn’t want to subject his children to it in case the bad reaction was hereditary.
Some are questioning whether the institution can possibly survive the fallout of this interview—that claims of racism at the highest levels of the family will hasten the replacement of the monarchy with a non-hereditary head of state.
That surely was the sentiment of more than a few of the hereditary distillers in bourbon country.
This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut.
Some naive types might say that this indicates an enormous hereditary factor as an explanation of successful coin-flipping.
After 33 years of working in a factory, Nowlin had developed a hereditary eye disease called Retinitis pigmentosa.
The public ceremony unveiling the wife of the newly anointed hereditary dictator of North Korea was anything but traditional.
Hereditary legislation in the twentieth century and the most civilized country in the world!
Membership in the Virginia Council was considered a position of the greatest prestige and was almost an hereditary position.
Being the hereditary Datto, the inhabitants of the valley generally sympathized with him, at least passively.