pseudoautosomal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing genes in the X- and Y- chromosomes that behave like autosomes during meiosis
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- English autosomal English pseudoautosomal From pseudo- + autosomal.