The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hereditarily
Hereditarily \He*red"i*ta*ri*ly\, adv.
By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
hereditarily
adv. 1 In a hereditary manner. 2 With regard to inheritance.
Usage examples of "hereditarily".
Inasmuch as peculiarities often appear under domestication in one sex and become hereditarily attached to that sex, the same fact probably occurs under nature, and if so, natural selection will be able to modify one sex in its functional relations to the other sex, or in relation to wholly different habits of life in the two sexes, as is sometimes the case with insects.