HEREDITARY

• (adj.) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

  "ancestral home", "ancestral lore", "hereditary monarchy", "patrimonial estate", "transmissible tradition"

  synonyms : ancestral , patrimonial , transmissible

• (adj.) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

  "an inherited disease", "familial traits", "genetically transmitted features"

  synonyms : familial , genetic , inherited , transmissible , transmitted

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