D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Heredity

/hẽr-ĕd'-ət-ē/ · He·red·i·ty · IPA /həˈɹɛdəti/
01 n. Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings te…
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    Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.(Biol.) See: Pangenesis