| ADJECTIVE | all | inheritable, heritable | capable of being inherited |
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| Sounds | ihnhheh'rahtahbahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Capable of being inherited. | |
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| Synonym | heritable | |
| Narrower | ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible | inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent |
| familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible | Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | |
| inheriting | Having the legal right to inherit | |
| monogenic | Of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes | |
| nee | (meaning literally 'born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman | |
| polygenic | Of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once | |
| Opposite | noninheritable, nonheritable | not inheritable |
| Spanish | heredable, hereditable | |
| Catalan | heretable | |
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