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1. Oxford Dictionary

   hereditary

   • IPA[hɪˈrɛdɪt(ə)ri]

   英式

   • adj.
     (of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance；(of a person) holding a position by inheritance
2. • 釋義

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. (of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance the Queen's hereditary right to the throne
   • ▪ (of a person) holding a position by inheritance a hereditary peer
   • ▪ (of a characteristic or disease) determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants cystic fibrosis is our most common fatal hereditary disease either hereditary or environmental factors 同義詞 genetic, genetical, congenital, inborn, inherent, ... 更多inherited, inbred, innate, in the family, in the blood, in the genes
   • ▪ relating to inheritance the main objection to the hereditary principle is that such peers are not elected 同義詞 inherited, obtained by inheritance, bequeathed, willed, handed-down, ... 更多passed-down, passed-on, transferred, transmitted, ancestral, family, familial, rarelineal
   • 2. (of a set) defined such that every element which has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set.