Crossword-Solution: HEREDITARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hereditary | 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. |
| Hereditary | a. | Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease. |
We have 43 clues for the answer “HEREDITARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Genetically transmitted | 1 answer |
| Passed down, in a way | 1 answer |
| Like some feuds | 1 answer |
| Like many titles | 1 answer |
| HOLDING position by inheritance | 1 answer |
| primogenital | 2 answers |
| heritable | 3 answers |
| filial | 7 answers |
| COMBINING FORMS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED | 10 answers |
| immanent | 12 answers |
| Willed? | 14 answers |
| transferable | 21 answers |
| bred in the bone | 26 answers |
| ingrained | 26 answers |
| matriarchal | 30 answers |
| matrilineal | 31 answers |
| transmissible | 36 answers |
| bequeathed | 37 answers |
| connatural | 38 answers |
| maternal | 44 answers |
| In-born | 44 answers |
| Genetic | 45 answers |
| Inherited | 45 answers |
| Patriarchal. | 47 answers |
| Transmitted | 47 answers |
| patrimonial | 47 answers |
| genealogical | 47 answers |
| Inbred | 48 answers |
| lineal | 48 answers |
| intuitive | 49 answers |
| tribal | 49 answers |
| innate | 50 answers |
| familial | 50 answers |
| Instinctive | 51 answers |
| consanguine | 54 answers |
| Congenital | 55 answers |
| connate | 55 answers |
| Normal | 55 answers |
| Indigenous | 57 answers |
| intrinsic | 60 answers |
| Peer | 64 answers |
| In ___. | 72 answers |
| COMMON ___ | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEREDITARY (5)
From father to son, for above a hundred years, they followed the sea; a grey-headed shipmaster, in each generation, retiring from the quarter-deck to the homestead, while a boy of fourteen took the hereditary place before the mast, confronting the salt spray and the gale which had blustered against his sire and grandsire.
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits.
The fact that I wore the harness and metal of a thern who had been killed by a member of my party convinced them that I was an enemy of their hereditary foes, and placed me on a better footing in their estimation.
The evident cordiality with which the two men exchanged greetings filled me with wonder, for the black and white men of Barsoom were hereditary enemies—nor ever before had I known of two meeting other than in battle.
Here was a captive worth having! Seldom did a female of their hereditary enemies fall to the lot of a green man.
Quotes with HEREDITARY (3)
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1997–2021).