Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anlage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: an-lage
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.

noun

An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel).

noun

Temperament, the predominant personality type.

Example Sentences

"Stockard has shown that, not only do anesthetics arrest the development of the intra-embryonic blood vessels in the embryos of Fundulus, at an early ontogenetic stage, but in such a manner that no doubt can now exist that, under normal conditions, these vessels are formed in situ by a concrescence of independent and discontinuous anlagen, and that their endothelium is derived directly from intra-embryonic mesenchymal cells."
"Moreover, most species have a cirral pattern which - at least partially - closely resembles that of 18-cirri hypotrichs, including the formation from six (I-VI) anlagen."

Etymology

From German Anlage.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Anlage

Inflected Forms

anlages (plural) anlagen (plural)

Synonyms

primordium

Questions

What does anlage mean?: A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.
Where does anlage come from?: It is traced to German.

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