Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tetraallelic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tetraal-lel-ic
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to or composed of four alleles.

Example Sentences

"However, we did not get embryos that have a tetraallelic knock-out of the exon by zygote injection […]"

Etymology

From tetra- + allelic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: tetra

Questions

What does tetraallelic mean?: Relating to or composed of four alleles.
Where does tetraallelic come from?: From tetra- + allelic.

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