different between inbred vs hereditary

English

Pronunciation

• (attributive adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /??n?b??d/
• (predicative adjective, verb) IPA^(key): /??n?b??d/, /??n?b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

inbred (comparative more inbred, superlative most inbred)

1. Bred within; innate.
   • 1899, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age/A White-washed Uncle

     We who from daily experience knew Miss Smedley like a book—were we not only too well aware that she had neither accomplishments nor charms—no characteristic, in fact, but an inbred viciousness of temper and disposition?

   • 1666, John Bryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders

     His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.

2. (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
3. (genetics) Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

Synonyms

• (bred within): inborn, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:innate
• (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding):
• (of a population of genetically identical individuals):

Translations

Verb

inbred

1. simple past tense and past participle of inbreed
   • 1920, Chesla Clella Sherlock, Care and Management of Rabbits Chapter 3

     People discovered that the Belgian hare of those days was a very delicate animal and that it was subject to many diseases. It had been inbred so long in order to produce show animals that its vitality was nearly gone.

Noun

inbred (plural inbreds)

1. (vulgar) An inbred individual.

   Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.

Anagrams

• Binder, Birden, Bredin, bendir, binder, brined, rebind

English

Etymology

From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h????d?t(?)?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h????d??t??i/
• Hyphenation: he?red?i?ta?ry

Adjective

hereditary (comparative more hereditary, superlative most hereditary)

1. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

   Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.

3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

   hereditary rulers

4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes

   Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.

5. (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Synonyms

• inhereditary

Antonyms

• nonhereditary

Derived terms

Related terms

• see heir

Translations

Noun

hereditary (plural hereditaries)

1. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

See also

• congenital

Anagrams

• erythraeid