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co-dominant

co-dominant is the alternative form of codominant.

Meaning of codominant

Adjective

codominant (not comparable)

  1. Equally dominant.
    • codominant species in a region
  2. Describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant.
    • A and B are ‘co-dominant’ versions of the same gene, O being the ‘recessive’ form of it.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 137

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Questions about co-dominant

What is co-dominant the alternative form of?
Co-dominant is the alternative form of codominant.

Words near co-dominant in the dictionary

  1. co-directions
  2. co-director
  3. co-directors
  4. co-directs
  5. co-dominance
  6. co-dominant
  7. co-driver
  8. co-drivers
  9. co-dydramol
  10. co-ed
  11. co-edit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-dominant (page history and authors); codominant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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