-
"my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"nounany attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
Similar:
type of: -
nounthat which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Similar:
-
nounhereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Similar:
type of: -
noun(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Similar:
type of:
Definition that contains inheritance
- fall to be given by right or inheritance
- heirloom (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
- endowed provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)
- birthright an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
- entail limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
- drosophila small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
- patrimony an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
- accretion (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- lamarck French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
- mendelism the theory of inheritance based on Mendel's laws