English Explanatory Dictionary

meiotic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to meiosis.

Word forms

meiotic maiotic

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.

Antonyms

nonmeiotic

Derived words

ameiotic apomeiotic intrameiotic meiotically postmeiotic premeiotic pseudomeiotic transmeiotic
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