transmissible
trans·mis·sible
adjective
1.
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
2.
3.
inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
- “ancestral home”
- “ancestral lore”
- “hereditary monarchy”
- “patrimonial estate”
- “transmissible tradition”
Origin
From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.
Phrases
- transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
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