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epistatic

epistatic adjective: of or pertaining to epistasis.

Adjective

epistatic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to epistasis.

Noun

epistatic (plural epistatics)

  1. Any material that causes epistasis.

epistatic meaning in Tamil and Bengali

epistatic in Tamil

அதிரேக

epistatic in Bengali

এপিস্ট্যাসিস সংক্রান্ত

Forms of epistatic

pluralepistatics

Origin of epistatic

Adjective form of epistasis; compare static and stasis. The adjectival use in genetics was coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1909 in his book Mendel's Principles of Heredity.

Words formed from epistatic

Words that rhyme with epistatic

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Questions about epistatic

What does epistatic mean?
Epistatic means of or pertaining to epistasis.
What is epistatic in Tamil?
Epistatic in Tamil is அதிரேக. See Epistatic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is epistatic?
Epistatic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near epistatic in the dictionary

  1. epistasies
  2. epistasis
  3. epistasy
  4. epistatai
  5. epistates
  6. epistatic
  7. epistatically
  8. epistatics
  9. epistaxes
  10. epistaxic
  11. epistaxis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epistatic (page history and authors); epistatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); epistatic (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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