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inheritable

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[ US /ˌɪnˈhɛɹətəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being inherited
    inheritable traits such as eye color
    an inheritable title

How To Use inheritable In A Sentence

  • The comparison to being Black is based only on immutability, not inherence nor being inheritable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal challenge to Prop 8:
  • If George wishes to deny the right of inheritance, ‘he must do so with regard to movable as well as in the case of immovable goods, or at least he must demonstrate why immovables, and not movables, should be inheritable.’
  • Nearly everyone would like something to pass on to his descendants, yet there is no inheritable property accumulation in our Social Security system.
  • Collecting often runs in families - think of the Rothschilds - suggesting that it is an inheritable trait.
  • The nineteenth-century interest in craniometry and the ranking of species and races had assumed that intelligence was both biological and inheritable.
  • inheritable traits such as eye color
  • As they came to view themselves as the originators of their work, they also began to claim that their creations were their own property, as susceptible to legal protection and as inheritable or saleable as any other form of property.
  • First, reproductive cloning and inheritable genetic modification should be banned.
  • _Incorporeal_ hereditaments are inheritable rights which grow out of corporeal inheritances, or which consist in their enjoyment; as the right of pasturing a common; a right of passage over the land of another; a right to the use of waters, sometimes called _aquatic rights_, &c. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
  • An action of the environment on the organism to produce selectable and inheritable variation would solve a number of problems for Darwin.
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