in a heritable manner; in a way that can be inherited or passed down.
Middle English 'heritable' + '-ly' adverbial suffix. This formation allows the adjective to modify verbs or other adverbial contexts.
This adverb is rare in modern usage, but when it appears, it usually describes biological processes happening in a way that gets passed to the next generation—heredity in action.
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