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INHERITABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being inherited
Example:
an inheritable title
Synonyms:
heritable; inheritable
Classified under:
Similar:
ancestral; hereditary; patrimonial; transmissible (inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent)
familial; genetic; hereditary; inherited; transmissible; transmitted (occurring among members of a family usually by heredity)
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)
nee ((meaning literally 'born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman)
Antonym:
noninheritable (not inheritable)
