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Inheritable adj.

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.

Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.

Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. "By attainder... the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable." "The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male."

Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.

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Etymology of 'Inheritable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inheritable" Quotes from Famous Books

... continued for hundreds of generations, or that any changes of structure quickly produced by disease, are inherited; it would appear as if the tissue of the part affected must slowly and freely grow into the new form, in order to be inheritable. There is a very great difference in the hereditary tendency of different peculiarities, and of the same peculiarity, in different individuals and species; thus twenty thousand seeds of the weeping ash have been sown and not one come up true;—out of ...

— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin

... pigmented spots, seems to indicate the adrenals as controllers of the black and white factors. Davenport has concluded that there are two double factors for black pigmentation in the full-blooded negro which are separately inheritable. The determinants of the red and yellow have still to be ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... a strongly dysgenic factor. The addiction to the drug is of itself not transmissible, but the weakened constitution or degeneracy which is generally responsible for the development of the drug addiction is inheritable. ...

— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson

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