Meiotic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to meiosis. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to meiosis wordnet

Etymology

Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.

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