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# inherited

«inherited» in Mova's school dictionary: **passed down from parents to children through the body…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (past of inherit: inherit, inherits, inherited, inheriting); adjective (inherited)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Inherited means passed down from parents to children through the body, like eye colour or freckles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#m1)

2) Inherited means received money, land or things from someone after they died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#m2)

3) Inherited can mean got from a person who had it before, like a job, a problem or old clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, inherited characteristics (traits) such as eye colour, hair colour and blood group come from parents through genes; other things, like scars or speaking French, are learned or caused by life and are not inherited. In stories, a character inherits a castle or a fortune. Phrases: inherited from, inherited traits, inherited a fortune.

### examples

- I inherited my blue eyes from my dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x1)
- Freckles can be inherited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x2)
- She inherited her grandmother's ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x3)
- A scar is not an inherited feature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x4)
- The puppy inherited its mother's floppy ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x5)
- In the story, the boy inherited an old castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x6)
- I inherited my brother's old bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x7)
- His children inherited, for the most part, the distinguished talents of their father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: inherit, inherited, inheriting. Noun: inheritance. «Inherit from» someone. Trap: things you learn (like a skill) or get from accidents are not inherited; only things passed through genes are inherited in science.

### In the corpora

- [When close relatives have babies together, inherited illnesses become more common, so swapping animals keeps the family tree healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/7/)
- [Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/13/)
- [Round follicles grow straight hair and flat or oval follicles grow curly hair, and hair shape is inherited from your family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/8/)
- [Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/7/)
- [Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inherited» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherited/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.