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floxed

floxed is the simple past and past participle of flox.

Meaning of flox

Verb (1)

flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

  1. (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP".
    • In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning, →ISBN, page 93

Verb (2)

flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

  1. (dated, transitive) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel.
    • It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences, page 94

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Questions about floxed

What is floxed the simple past and past participle of?
Floxed is the simple past and past participle of flox.

Words near floxed in the dictionary

  1. flowy
  2. flox
  3. flox silk
  4. floxacillin
  5. floxacrine
  6. floxed
  7. floxes
  8. floxing
  9. floxuridine
  10. Floy
  11. Floyd

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