hereditary: Meaning and Definition of

he•red•i•tar•y

1. passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes:Cf. congenital. Blue eyes are hereditary in our family.
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. a hereditary proprietor.
1. descending by inheritance.
2. transmitted or transmissible in the line of descent by force of law.
3. holding title, rights, etc., by inheritance:a hereditary proprietor.
1. (of a collection of sets) signifying that each subset of a set in the collection is itself a set in the collection.
2. of or pertaining to a mathematical property, as containing a greatest integer, applicable to every subset of a set that has the property.