heredity

English

Etymology

From Middle French hérédité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).

Noun

heredity (plural heredities)

1. Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

Related terms

• hereditary

Translations

hereditary transmission

Chinese: Mandarin: 遺傳 (zh), 遗传 (zh) (yíchuán) Irish: oidhreacht (ga) f., dúchas (ga) m. Japanese: 遺伝 (ja) (いでん, iden)

Polish: dziedziczność (pl) f. Romanian: ereditate (ro) f. Russian: насле́дственность (ru) (naslédstvennost') f.

See also

• pangenesis

Anagrams

• third eye