meiotic

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Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 13
Letters: 7

Definition of meiotic

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Of or pertaining to meiosis.

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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.