Crossword Dictionary
HEREDITARY
ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible - a
inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
Synonyms
genetic, inborn, transmitted, ancestral, bequeathed, family, genealogical, handed-down, heritable, inbred, inheritable, inherited, lineal, maternal, paternal, patrimonial, traditional, transmissible
Examples
There were no hereditary or formally elected chiefs, nor was there any vestige of monarchy.
If it's hereditary, then the mutation has been hidden from us for, like, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.
He no longer seemed stout, though he still had the appearance of solidity and strength hereditary in his family.
Etymology
early 15c., "transmitted in a line of progeny," hereditarie, from Latin hereditarius "inherited; of or relating to an inheritance," from hereditas "heirship, inheritance" (see heredity). Oldest English sense of diseases; meaning "transmitted or held by inheritance" is from mid-15c.