Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any form of growth; specifically, growth by increase in number of cells.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μερίς (merís, “part”) + -sis (forming nouns of action

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μερίς (merís, “part”) + -sis (forming nouns of action or progress)

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Forms

plural: merises
Singularmerisis
Pluralmerises

irregular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmeristic

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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