/air"loohm'/ , n.
1. a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
2. Law. property neither personal nor real that descends to the heir of an estate as part of the real property.
adj.
3. being an old variety that is being cultivated again: heirloom vegetables and fruits.
[ 1375-1425; late ME heirlome. See HEIR, LOOM 1 ]