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descendibility

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de⋅scend⋅i⋅ble

  [di-sen-duh-buhl]
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–adjective
1. capable of being transmitted by inheritance.
2. permitting descent: a descendible hill.
Also, de⋅scend⋅a⋅ble.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME descendable < OF, equiv. to descend(re) to descend + -able -able; sp. later Latinized

Related forms:
de⋅scend⋅i⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, de⋅scend⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
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