acrocentric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
(of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
noun
A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
Example Sentences
- "This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²²."