English
Pronunciation
(Canada) IPA|/�h�rɪt�b�l/

Adjective
en-adj|-

1. able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children

#*1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
#*:All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property.
#*1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
#*:But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...

Synonyms
inheritable

it:heritable
vi:heritable
zh:heritable

• 2006-12-06 07:23 - RobotGMwikt - robot Adding: [[it:heritable]], [[vi:heritable]], [[zh:heritable]]

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