Heritable Definition

hĕrĭ-tə-bəl
adjective
Capable of being passed from one generation to the next; hereditary.
American Heritage Medicine
That can be inherited.
Webster's New World
Capable of inheriting or taking by inheritance.
American Heritage
That can inherit.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a trait whose observed variance within a given population results at least in part from genetic rather than environmental factors.
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Origin of Heritable

  • Middle English from Old French from heriter to inherit from Late Latin hērēditāre inherit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French héritable, from Old French heritable.

    From Wiktionary

Heritable Sentence Examples

  • The fold in the ears was caused by a heritable, dominant, mutated gene.

  • The title was made; heritable in order of primogeniture, and in the case of archbishops through their nephews.

  • Breeders, he says, who try to build up qualities by the selection of the fluctuating variations that occur soon find that they reach a maximum beyond which their efforts fail, unless they turn to the more rarely occurring but heritable mutations.

  • Furthermore, vessel size has been found to be a highly heritable character in oak.

  • Moveable property All property which is not heritable is regarded as moveable in Scottish land law.

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ELEBLE

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