heredity
Meaning of 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.
Information about heredity
- It is a name.
- The plural form of heredity is: heredities.
- Languages in which heredity is used:
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Hyphenation of heredity
hered-ity
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- heredity is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of heredity
- Spanish: herencia
- French: hérédité, héritage
- Portuguese: herança
- German: Vererbung
- Italian: ereditarietà
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