adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to meiosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonmeiotic
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meiotic
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adjective
Meaning 2
of or relating to meiosis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: meiòtic — of or pertaining to meiosis
- French: méiotique — of or pertaining to meiosis
- German: meiotisch — of or pertaining to meiosis
- Greek: μειωτικός (meiotikós) — of or pertaining to meiosis