Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deletant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dele-tant
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.

Example Sentences

"The resulting vector containing the SnTox1-Bar knockout construct was PCR-amplified with 5_Tox1Fbar and 3_Tox1Fbar for transformation in toxa3 -10 to result in SnToxA, SnTox1, and SnTox3 deletant mutants."

Etymology

From delete + -ant.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: delete

Inflected Forms

deletants (plural)

Questions

What does deletant mean?: A mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.
Where does deletant come from?: From delete + -ant.

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