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Heritable

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Adjective

1. heritable, inheritable

capable of being inherited

Example Sentences:
'inheritable traits such as eye color'
'an inheritable title'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Heritable

see synonyms of heritable
adjective
1. 
capable of being inherited; inheritable
2. mainly law
capable of inheriting

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Heritable

see synonyms of heritable
adjective
1. 
that can be inherited
2. 
that can inherit

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Heritable

see synonyms of heritable
adj.
1.
a. Capable of being passed to an heir: heritable aristocratic titles; heritable property.
b. Archaic Capable of inheriting or taking by inheritance: a queen who died without heritable issue.
2. Biology
a. Capable of being passed from one generation to the next; hereditary.
b. Of or relating to a trait whose observed variance within a given population results at least in part from genetic rather than environmental factors.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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