Heritable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of being passed from one generation to the next; hereditary.
  • adj. Capable of inheriting or taking by inheritance.
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  • adj. able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
  • adj. Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being inherited; inheritable; in Scots law, passing by inheritance to heirs at law: as, heritable rights or possessions, consisting of land and all things attached to or connected with it, and sometimes of other things made descendible by succession, in distinction from movable rights or property, consisting of things not so attached or descendible.
  • Capable of inheriting or taking by descent.
  • n. In Scots law, a possession or right which may be inherited, or which may descend by succession.
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  • adj. capable of being inherited
    • Equivalent
    familial    transmissible    inherited    inheriting    polygenic   
    Cross Reference
    heritable bond    heritable security   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inheritable    hereditary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    charitable    inheritable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disfavored    multiple-zone    epigenetic    etiological    mid-sized   
     
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