1(of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance:the Queen’s hereditary right to the throne [attributive] (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 relating to inheritance: the main objection to the hereditary principle is that such peers are not elected
2 Mathematics (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.
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nonheritable
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noninheritable
