hereditary

(s) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- an inherited disease
- familial traits
- genetically transmitted features
genetic, inherited, transmitted, familial, transmissible,
(s) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
- ancestral home
- ancestral lore
- hereditary monarchy
- patrimonial estate
- transmissible tradition
ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible,

Synonyms

genetic inherited transmitted familial transmissible ancestral patrimonial

Words of close approximity

hereditary cerebellar ataxia hereditary condition hereditary disease hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy hereditary pattern