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homozygote

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/
  • CMU ARPABET: HH OW2 M OW0 Z AY1 G OW0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: heterozygote

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noun

Meaning 2

(genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: zygote, fertilized ovum

History

Etymology

From homo- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: хомозигот (homozigot) — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Catalan: homozigot — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Chinese Mandarin: 純合子 /纯合子 (chúnhézǐ) — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Finnish: homotsygootti — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • French: homozygote — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • German: Homozygot — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Ido: homozigoto — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Irish: homaisiogót — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Italian: omozigote — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Polish: homozygota — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Portuguese: homozigoto — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Russian: гомозиго́та (gomozigóta) — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Serbo-Croatian: хомозѝго̄т — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
  • Serbo-Croatian: homozìgōt — a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci