What is "heritable" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does heritable mean in English? Meaning of heritable definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "heritable" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "heritable": capable of being inherited

Adjective

  • Meaning: capable of being inherited
  • Example: inheritable traits such as eye color an inheritable title
  • Synonyms: heritable inheritable
  • Antonyms: nonheritable noninheritable
  • Similar: ancestral familial genetic hereditary inherited inheriting monogenic nee patrimonial polygenic transmissible transmitted
  • Adjective: able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property.1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...
  • Synonyms:

    genetic, inborn, ancestral, family, inbred, inherited, maternal, paternal, traditional, patrimonial, transmitted, bequeathed, genealogical, handed down, inheritable, lineal, transmissible, willed,

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