[syn: genetic, genetical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Genetic \Ge*net"ic\ (j[-e]*n[e^]t"[i^]k), a.
1. Same as Genetical.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to genes or genetics; as, the genetic
code.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
genetic
adj 1: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity;
"an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically
transmitted features" [syn: familial, genetic,
hereditary, inherited, transmitted,
transmissible]
2: of or relating to or produced by or being a gene; "genic
combinations"; "genetic code" [syn: genic, genetic,
genetical]
3: pertaining to or referring to origin; "genetic history
reconstructs the origins of a literary work"
4: of or relating to the science of genetics; "genetic research"
[syn: genetic, genetical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "genetic":
abiogenetic, aboriginal, advancing, atavistic, basal, basic,
biogenetic, blastogenetic, bodily, born, bradytelic, central,
clannish, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural,
constitutional, crucial, developing, elemental, elementary,
embryonic, epigenetic, ethnic, eumerogenetic, evolutional,
evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolving, family, fundamental,
gametic, generative, genial, genic, genital, genitive, gentile,
gentilic, germinal, hereditary, heterogenetic, histogenetic,
homogenetic, horotelic, in embryo, in ovo, in the blood, inborn,
inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive,
instinctual, isogenetic, lineal, matroclinous, maturational,
maturative, maturing, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic,
national, native, native to, natural, natural to, ontogenetic,
organic, original, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic,
patrimonial, patroclinous, phyletic, phylogenetic, physical,
physiogenetic, phytogenetic, plasmatic, plasmic, pregnant, primal,
primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, progressing,
protogenic, protoplasmic, racial, radical, rudimentary, seminal,
sporogenous, tachytelic, temperamental, totemic, tribal, unfolding,
xenogenetic