Definition of Heredities

1. heredity [n] - See also: heredity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heredities

hereditary multiple trichoepithelioma
hereditary myokymia
hereditary opalescent dentin
hereditary pancreatitis
hereditary pattern
hereditary peroneal nerve dysfunction
hereditary persistence of foetal haemoglobin
hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy
hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy
hereditary spherocytosis
hereditary spinal ataxia
heredities (current term)
heredity
heredo-
heredofamilial tremor
heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
heredotaxia
herefor
herefore
herefrom
herehence
herein
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow

Literary usage of Heredities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Jerusalem and the Old Jerusalem: The Place and Service of the Jewish by James John Garth Wilkinson (1894)
"heredities. The inheritances of character and disposition from parents to children have been studied with some diligence in this scientific age, ..."

2. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"In our search for heredities we shall find many plants which are scarcely worth working with— plants whose environments have not led into heredities which ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1913)
"OM There are gold men, and tin men, and copper men, and leaden men, and steel men, and so on—and each has the limitations of his nature, his heredities, ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"... heredities on educational progress, while the influence of education on such peculiarities and heredities should be carefully learned and determined. ..."

5. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... resultant not only of intermingling heredities on father's and mother's side, but of intermingling heredities, one of planetary and one of cosmic scope. ..."

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