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disassortatively

disassortatively adverb: in a disassortative manner.

Adverb

disassortatively (comparative more disassortatively, superlative most disassortatively)

  1. In a disassortative manner
    • In fact, classic assortative mating is not possible to occur among the PAA genomotype because crosses between PAA males and females do not father PAA offspring, meaning PAA females have to mate disassortatively in order to produce offspring of their own type.2015 July 17, “Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of disassortatively

comparativemore disassortatively
superlativemost disassortatively

Origin of disassortatively

From disassortative + -ly.

Questions about disassortatively

What does disassortatively mean?
Disassortatively means in a disassortative manner.
What part of speech is disassortatively?
Disassortatively is an adverb.

Words near disassortatively in the dictionary

  1. disassociations
  2. disassociative
  3. disassociator
  4. disassociators
  5. disassortative
  6. disassortatively
  7. disassortativeness
  8. disassortativity
  9. disassortive
  10. disaster
  11. disaster area

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