| a. | 1. | Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; |
| 2. | Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; |
| Adj. | 1. | hereditary - tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" |
| 2. | hereditary - inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" |
HEREDITARY. That which is inherited.
ancestral, atavistic, bequeathed, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic, handed down, heritable, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inheritable, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, matroclinous, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, plasmatic, plasmic, primal, protoplasmic, temperamental, traditional, transferable, transmissible, willed