different between extraction vs heredity

English

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?æk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. A person's origin or ancestry.
   • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge ?ISBN, page 144

     Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...

3. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Synonyms

• (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
• (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Translations

Anagrams

• tetraxonic

French

Pronunciation

Noun

extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

Further reading

• “extraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French heredité, from Latin h?r?ditas (“condition of being an heir”), from h?res (“heir”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h????d?ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h???????i/

Noun

heredity (usually uncountable, plural heredities)

1. 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.

Related terms

• hereditary

Translations

See also

• pangenesis

Anagrams

• third eye