in'heritress
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| —vb , -its, -iting, -ited | |
| 1. | to receive (property, a right, title, etc) by succession or under a will |
| 2. | (intr) to succeed as heir |
| 3. | (tr) to possess (a characteristic) through genetic transmission |
| 4. | (tr) to receive (a position, attitude, property, etc) from a predecessor |
| [C14: from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhērēditāre to appoint an heir, from Latin hērēs | |
| in'herited | |
| —adj | |
| in'heritor | |
| —n | |
| in'heritress | |
| —fem n | |
| in'heritrix | |
| —fem n | |
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In'heritress
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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