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Transmissible

Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.

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Heritable 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Heritable 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Infectious 84% connected

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectio…

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Infectious 84% connected

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectio…

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Inheritable 84% connected

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.

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Inheritable 84% connected

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Communicate 74% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Communicate 74% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Ancestral 92% connected

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Catching 92% connected

of Catch

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Communicable 92% connected

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Contagious 92% connected

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Genetic 92% connected

Same as Genetical.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hereditary 92% connected

Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inherited 92% connected

of Inherit

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Patrimonial 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transmitted 92% connected

of Transmit

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