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hereditary
/hɚˈɛdəˌtɛɹi/
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The second syllable carries the main stress.
Keep the opening r-colored vowel light, then make the following vowel the strongest beat.
5 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“She asked whether the condition was hereditary.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does hereditary mean?
adjective
- Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
- Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
- Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- 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.
- Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
noun
- A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
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IPA pronunciation
/hɚˈɛdəˌtɛɹi/
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We need a field worker to travel about the country and pick up all the hereditary statistics she can about our chicks.
The cytoplasm of the male sexual cell is therefore not necessary to ensure a transference of hereditary characters from parents to offspring.
More book examples (3)
Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue.
As it is the fashion nowadays to assign a prominent part to these hereditary influences, I must eliminate them from my experiments.
Diagnosis from the Eye proves that the remaining twenty-five percent are also more or less affected by hereditary and acquired disease conditions.