English-Finnish translations for hereditary

• perinnöllinen
• perintö
  saada perintönä
  riidellä perinnöstä
• perintö-

Definition of hereditary

• Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate
• Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank
• Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
• Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective
• A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords

Examples

• Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
• hereditary rulers
• Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.

Related words

• hereditary elliptocytosis
• hereditary disease
• hereditary debt
• hereditary factor