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[ adjective ] (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Used in print

(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)

Wound_tumor_virus is a leafhopper transmitted virus not easily transmissible by mechanical inoculation ( Black , 1944 ; Brakke et_al. , 1954 ) .

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infectious

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[ adjective ] inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

Examples

"ancestral home" "ancestral lore" "hereditary monarchy" "patrimonial estate" "transmissible tradition"

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law inheritable

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[ adjective ] tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity

Examples

"an inherited disease" "familial traits" "genetically transmitted features"

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inheritable

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