heredity
UK/hɪˈɹɛdɪti//həˈɹɛdəti/
heredity noun: 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.
Noun
heredity (usually uncountable, plural heredities)
- 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.
- laws of heredity
- genetics and heredity
heredity meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
heredity in Tamil
- கால்வழி, மரபுத்தொடர், மரபுவழி, தலைமுறை, பரம்பரை இயல்பு, பாரம்பரியம்
heredity in Urdu
- heredity
- وراثت virāsat
heredity in Malayalam
- പൈതൃകഗുണം, ജന്മവാസന, വംശപാരമ്പര്യം
heredity in Kannada
- ಆನುವಂಶಿಕತೆ, ವಂಶಪರಂಪರೆ, ರಕ್ತಸಂಬಂಧ, ವಂಶಜನ್ಯವಾದುದು, ಹುಟ್ಟುಪರಿಚೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- heredity in Sanskrit
- क्रम kráma
- heredity in Tagalog
- kamanahan
- heredity in Indonesian
- hereditas
- heredity in Thai
- กรรมพันธุ์
Examples of heredity in a sentence
- influence of heredity
- Eye color is often determined by heredity.
Forms of heredity
| plural | heredities |
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Origin of heredity
From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).
Words formed from heredity
Questions about heredity
- What does heredity mean?
- Heredity means 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.
- What is heredity in Tamil?
- Heredity in Tamil is கால்வழி, மரபுத்தொடர், மரபுவழி. See Heredity meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use heredity in a sentence?
- influence of heredity
- What part of speech is heredity?
- Heredity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce heredity?
- Heredity is pronounced /hɪˈɹɛdɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of heredity?
- The plural of heredity is heredities.
Words near heredity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heredity (page history and authors); heredity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); وراثت (Urdu) (page history and authors); heredity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heredity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); क्रम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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