An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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To take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an → heir (Dictionary.com).

→ heritage.

1) Capable of being inherited.
2) Capable of inheriting; qualified to inherit (Dictionary.com).

→ inherit; → -able.

1) Something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy; something, as a quality, characteristic, or other immaterial possession, received from progenitors or predecessors as if by succession.
2) The genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively.
3) The act or fact of inheriting by succession, as if by succession, or genetically (Dictionary.com).

Verbal noun of → inherit.

A person who → inherits; → heir.

→ inherit; → -or.