Definitions
1.AdjectivePassed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
2.AdjectiveOf a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death."Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times."
3.AdjectiveOf a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank."hereditary rulers"
4.AdjectiveOf a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes."Haemophilia is hereditary in his family."
5.AdjectiveOf a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
6.AdjectiveOf a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
7.NounA hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.