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inheritable

/in-her-i-tuh-buhl/US // ɪnˈhɛr ɪ tə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈhɛrɪtəbəl) //

可继承,可继承的,可继承性,可遗传

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of being inherited.
    • : capable of inheriting; qualified to inherit.

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Examples

  • Sanger advocated sterilization for the “insane and feeble-minded” and those with “inheritable or transmissible diseases.”

  • More controversially, CRISPR could be used to create “designer babies” with inheritable genetic changes.

  • Most of her blood-relations are, so far as inheritable morbid conditions are concerned, thoroughly healthy.

  • He might die the very day after celebrating the espousals, and then—not even the ducal robes were inheritable.

  • Moreover, only one of them is actually inheritable, and that one is transmitted relatively seldom.

  • On the contrary, the individuals hold upon his strips developed very rapidly into an inheritable and partible ownership.

  • If they are inheritable, Jefferson was entitled to them on both the paternal and maternal side.