Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transmissible"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transmissible \Trans*mis"si*ble\, a. [Cf. F. transmissible.]
Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of
being passed through any body or substance.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
transmissible
adj 1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn:
{catching}, {communicable}, {contagious}, {contractable},
{transmittable}]
2: tending to occur among members of a family usually by
heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits";
"genetically transmitted features" [syn: {familial}, {genetic},
{hereditary}, {inherited}, {transmitted}]
3: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal
rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore";
"hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate";
"transmissible tradition" [syn: {ancestral}, {hereditary},
{patrimonial}]
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