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atsugari

atsugari noun: a Drosophila phenotype that shows a preference for unusually low temperatures.

Noun

atsugari (uncountable)

  1. A Drosophila phenotype that shows a preference for unusually low temperatures.

Origin of atsugari

Borrowed from Japanese 暑がり (atsugari, “one who dislikes hot temperature”), from 暑い (atsui, “hot”) + (verb-)がり (gari, “one who dislikes something”, literally “one often shows expression of something”).

Questions about atsugari

What does atsugari mean?
Atsugari means a Drosophila phenotype that shows a preference for unusually low temperatures.
What part of speech is atsugari?
Atsugari is a noun.

Words near atsugari in the dictionary

  1. atstunts
  2. atstut
  3. atstuts
  4. atstutted
  5. atstutting
  6. atsugari
  7. Atsugewi
  8. Atsugi
  9. Atsuko
  10. att
  11. att'ry

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