(of a feature or disease 特征或疾病 capable of being passed from a parent to a child in the genes 可遗传的；有遗传性的 inheritable characteristics 可遗传的特性
Word Originlate Middle English (formerly also as enheritable): from Anglo-Norman French enheritable ‘able to be made heir’, from Old French enheriter, from late Latin inhereditare ‘appoint as heir’, from Latin in- ‘in’ + heres, hered- ‘heir’.