coheiress
(kəʊˈɛərɪs)
[see prec. and heiress.]
A woman who shares an inheritance with others; a joint-heiress.
| c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §23 (1810) 32 Nicholas..left the daughter of John his co-heiress. 1771 Goldsm. Hist. Eng. II. 17 One of the co-heiresses of the Crown. 1875 Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xvi. 345 The husband of the eldest co-heiress of Gloucester. |