meiotic
meiotisch
Of or pertaining to meiosisOf or pertaining to meiosis.
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)Of or pertaining to meiosis.
meiotisch
of or relating to meiosis
Translations
2 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
of or pertaining to meiosis:
Origin
Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 aCoined 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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