de vriesian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the American editor and novelist Peter De Vries (1910–1993).
Example Sentences
- "However, while the particle hypothesis is not disproved, I have no doubt that the Weismannian, and perhaps also the De Vriesian conception of the genes will seem less and less plausible as new facts accumulate."
- "Significat as are the investigations of [Wilhelm] Johannsen with the genotypes of plants and of [Herbert Spencer] Jennings in the clones found in Paramœcium with respect to these problems, there still remains in both the idea of quantitative as opposed to qualitative “variations” bearing much the same relation to one another that they do in the original De Vriesian statement."
- "Later, the Mendelian and De Vriesian inheritance models proved that the mother and father contributed equal amounts of somatic chromosome genetic information to both their male and female offspring."
- "At any rate, there is fun to be had not only from the De Vriesian virtuosity in pun and parody, but in following his literally incredible plot."
- "Wendell Pocock, the hero of Elliott Baker’s third novel, “Pocock & Pitt,” is also a De Vriesian figure—a peg too round for the square apertures of life on the fruited plain."
- "The lifelong irony was distinctive—“De Vriesian,” one would like to say—and can be followed down the rich trail of casuals, reviews, Talk stories, poems and novel excerpts that he contributed to this magazine between 1939 and 1986."