Definition of heritable Heritable
/hɛˈɹʌtʌbʌl/ - [herutubul] - her•it•a•ble
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What does heritable mean?
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| heritable - capable of being inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title" | ||
| inheritable | ||
| nonheritable, noninheritable not inheritable | ||
| patrimonial, ancestral, hereditary, transmissible inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" | ||
| inherited, transmitted, familial, hereditary, transmissible, genetic occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" | ||
| monogenic of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes | ||
| polygenic of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes | ||
| inheriting having the legal right to inherit | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- heritable (a.)
Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable. - heritable (a.)
Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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heritable
Capable of being inherited.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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heritable
her′i-ta-bl, adj. that may be inherited.—n. Heritabil′ity.—adv. Her′itably.—n. Her′itor, in Scotland, a landholder in a parish.—Heritable property (Scots law), real property, as opposed to movable property or chattels; Heritable security, same as English mortgage. [O. Fr. heritable, hereditable—-Low L. hereditabilis—L. hereditas.]
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