1. (a.) Passing from a parent to a child; as, a hereditary disease\.

2. (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

ancestral atavistic bequeathed bodily born coeval congenital connatal connate connatural constitutional genetic genic handed down heritable in the blood inborn inbred incarnate indigenous inheritable inherited innate instinctive instinctual matroclinous native native to natural natural to organic patrimonial patroclinous physical plasmatic plasmic primal protoplasmic temperamental traditional transferable transmissible willed