Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being inherited.
- adjective Having the right to inherit or the capability of inheriting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible from the ancestor to the heir by course of law; heritable: as, an inheritable estate or title.
- Capable of being transmitted by or received from progenitors: as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.
- Capable of inheriting; qualified to inherit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible.
- adjective Capable of being transmitted from parent to child.
- adjective Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
- adjective blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That can be
inherited
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- adjective capable of being inherited
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Examples
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The technique -- known as inheritable genetic modification -- modifies genes in eggs, sperm or early embryos and results in the altered genes being passed on to future generations.
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Omega imbalance can make obesity 'inheritable': study
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Omega imbalance can make obesity 'inheritable': study
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Intelligence is partly inheritable, but itâs certainly possible that there are differences in the âintelligence geneâ correlated with race.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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Francis Galton, the founder of British eugenics and a cousin of Darwin, sought to nail down the physical and inheritable Jewish traits.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Land-lease titles have been made long-term, inheritable and transferable, but have stopped short of full ownership.
Indian Entrepreneurship Trumps Chinese Raghav Bahl 2010
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But there are probabilities associated with inheritable traits.
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We propose that even bacteria have intelligence beyond machinery: unlike a machine, a bacterial colony can improve itself by alteration of gene expression, cell differentiation and even generation of inheritable genetic ‘tools’.
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If it is a matter of owning a printing press, then can Microsoft just buy a press and become a member of the club, or is this really some sort of “inheritable right” that no one can just buy into?
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Numerous nineteenth-century anthropologists and social Darwinists took another tack and sought to identify inheritable signs of Jewishness.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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