Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- able to be transmitted
- capable of being transmitted from one person to another; contagious