adj. (Genetics) tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; as, an inherited disease. Syn. -- familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted, transmissible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
[ほんりょうあんど, honryouando] (n) recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)