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Meiotic
see synonyms of meioticAdjective
1. meiotic
of or relating to meiosis
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Meiotic
see synonyms of meioticnoun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)
1.
a type of cell division in which a nucleus divides into four daughter nuclei, each containing half the chromosome number of the parent nucleus: occurs in all sexually reproducing organisms in which haploid gametes or spores are produced
Compare mitosis, See also prophase (sense 2)2. rhetoric another word for litotes
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Meiotic
see synonyms of meiotic noun
1.
the process of two consecutive nuclear divisions in the formation of germ cells in animals and of spores in most plants, by which the number of chromosomes
ordinarily is reduced from the diploid, or double, number found in somatic cells to the haploid, or halved, number found in gametes and in spores
see also mitosis2.
litotes
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Meiotic
see synonyms of meioticn. pl. mei·o·ses (-sēz′)
1. Genetics The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes from diploid to haploid, as in the production of gametes.
2. Rhetorical understatement.
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