See hereditary on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "hereditary",
"tags": [
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "more hereditary",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most hereditary",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": "he‧red‧i‧ta‧ry",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Hereditary is something that is passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate."
],
"id": "simple-hereditary-en-adj-o344Emjf"
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "haemophilia is hereditary in his family."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If a disease is hereditary, it is passed from a parent to offspring in the genes"
],
"id": "simple-hereditary-en-adj-gZayivUf"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/həˈrɛdɪt(ə)ri/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/həˈrɛdɪˌtɛri/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-hereditary.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "hereditary"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "hereditary",
"tags": [
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "more hereditary",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most hereditary",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"more": "true"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": "he‧red‧i‧ta‧ry",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Hereditary is something that is passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate."
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "haemophilia is hereditary in his family."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If a disease is hereditary, it is passed from a parent to offspring in the genes"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/həˈrɛdɪt(ə)ri/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/həˈrɛdɪˌtɛri/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-hereditary.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "hereditary"
}
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