adjective
- Of disease. ( capable of being transmitted by infection)
- synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmittable
- Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity.
- usage: "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
- synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted
- Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent.
- usage: "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
- synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial
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