| 单词 | hereditary |
| 释义 | hereditary —hereditarily /hi red'i tair"euh lee, -red"i ter'-/, adv. —hereditariness, n. /heuh red"i ter'ee/, adj. 1. passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Cf. congenital. 2. of or pertaining to inheritance or heredity: a hereditary title. 3. existing by reason of feeling, opinions, or prejudices held by predecessors: a hereditary enemy. 4. Law. a. descending by inheritance. b. transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law. c. holding title, rights, etc., by inheritance: a hereditary proprietor. 5. Math. a. (of a collection of sets) signifying that each subset of a set in the collection is itself a set in the collection. b. of or pertaining to a mathematical property, as containing a greatest integer, applicable to every subset of a set that has the property. [1375-1425; late ME < L hereditarius relating to inheritance, equiv. to heredit(as) inheritance, HEREDITY + -arius -ARY] Syn. 1, 2. See innate. 3. ancestral, traditional. |
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