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What does hereditary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hereditary? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
  2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
  3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
  4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
  5. (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
Noun
  1. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
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