| Adj. | 1. | hereditary - tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"heritable, inheritable - that can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title" | |
| 2. | hereditary - inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" heritable, inheritable - that can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title" | |