inheritable
adjective/ɪnˈherɪtəbl/
/ɪnˈherɪtəbl/
(biology)- (of a feature or disease) capable of being passed from a parent to a child in the genes
- inheritable characteristics
Word Originlate Middle English (formerly also as enheritable): from Anglo-Norman French enheritable ‘able to be made heir’, from Old French enheriter, from late Latin inhereditare ‘appoint as heir’, from Latin in- ‘in’ + heres, hered- ‘heir’.Definitions on the go
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