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meiotic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
mei-ot-ic
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to meiosis.

Etymology

Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.

Inflected Forms

maiotic (alternative, archaic)

Derived Forms

ameiotic apomeiotic intrameiotic meiotically postmeiotic premeiotic pseudomeiotic transmeiotic

Antonyms

nonmeiotic

Questions

What does meiotic mean?
Of or pertaining to meiosis.
Where does meiotic come from?
Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.

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