heritable

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. That can legally be inherited.
    — 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.
  2. Genetically transmissible from parent to offspring; hereditary.
    — 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, ...

词形变化

more heritable comparative most heritable superlative

词汇关系

词源

Inherited from Middle English heritable, from Anglo-Norman heritable; equivalent to herit + -able.
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