Paints symbolic urns, in essence, which are inherited (6)
I believe the answer is:
inborn
'are inherited' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'paints symbolic urns in essence' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'in' is within the answer.
The remaining letters 'born' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'which' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inborn that I've seen before include "Innate, natural" , "Normally existing at birth" , "that's natural" , "naturally!" , "Native" .)