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What is "heritable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
heritable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If the average value of the trait in the offspring is higher than the parental generation average, the trait is heritable.
▪ In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage.
▪ It makes a permanent, heritable change.
▪ Prior to the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747, those nobles who possessed extensive judicial rights controlled their own patronage.
▪ The variability was expected as the degree of relationship between two individuals only indicates the probability that the two share heritable characters.
▪ The would-be objector must be either an owner or an occupier of heritable property.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heritable

Heritable \Her"it*a*ble\, a. [OF. h['e]ritable. See Heritage, Hereditable.]

  1. Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

  2. Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

    This son shall be legitimate and heritable.
    --Sir M. Hale.

    Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.
    --Jacob (Law Dict.).

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
heritable

early 15c., from Old French héritable (c.1200), from hériter (see heritage). Related: Heritability.

Wiktionary
heritable

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

WordNet
heritable

adj. that can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title" [syn: inheritable] [ant: noninheritable]

Usage examples of "heritable".

Among the laws passed in this session, was an act abolishing the heritable jurisdictions, and taking away the tenure of wardholdings in Scotland, which were reckoned among the principal sources of those rebellions that had been excited since the revolution.

Instead of hunting down the heritable traits we needed in the wild, and struggling for years to produce cross-breeds bearing all of them, we designed every trait from scratch.

If the cell that an error occurs in happens to be a germ cell (sperm or egg), the error will be heritable and appear in all the cells of the offspring it's passed on to.