adj
Meaning 1
Going back; receding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
recessive
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adj
Meaning 2
Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
Examples
- 1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3, The Lydenburg male and the other two females have the infuscate pattern definitely more recessive and less evident, although traceable.
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adj
Meaning 3
Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 4
A gene that is recessive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
Examples
- 2008, Ascertainment Test, entry in George P. Rédei, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics, page 147, In three-child families 27/64 will have no affected offspring, 9/37 will have 2, and 1/37 are expected to have 3 recessives.
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adjective
Meaning 5
(of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dominant
adjective
Meaning 6
of or pertaining to a recession
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: recessionary
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: recessive allele
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: allele, allelomorph
History
Etymology
From Latin recēdō + -ive, or directly from New Latin recessīvus.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُتَنَحٍّ (mutanaḥḥin) — in genetics
- Bulgarian: рецесивен (recesiven) — in genetics
- Catalan: recessiu — in genetics
- Chinese Mandarin: 隱性 /隐性 (yǐnxìng) — in genetics
- Czech: recesivní — in genetics
- Danish: recessiv — in genetics
- French: récessif — in genetics
- German: rezessiv — in genetics
- Hungarian: recesszív — in genetics
- Indonesian: resesif — in genetics
- Japanese: 潜性 (sensei) — in genetics
- Northern Kurdish: bezîw — in genetics
- Malay: resesif — in genetics
- Portuguese: recessivo — in genetics
- Romanian: recesiv — in genetics
- Spanish: recesivo — in genetics
- Swedish: recessiv — in genetics
- Tagalog: daigin — in genetics
- Vietnamese: lặn — in genetics
- German: rezessiv — in grammar