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inherited

adjective as in hereditary

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Currently, pedigrees are how horse owners and breeders find out which stallions are in a horse's ancestry, which gives information on the traits a horse may have inherited.

His farming career began in the 1970s when he inherited a rubber plantation in the the southern Indian state of Kerala , which he managed alongside his career as a doctor.

From BBC

The government has said the move was necessary in order to address what it has called a financial "black hole" it inherited from the Conservatives.

From BBC

It was confirmed that this genetic trait is inherited to the next generation.

The Home Office told the BBC it had inherited an asylum system under "unprecedented strain".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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