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half-sider

half-sider noun: a bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right.

half-sider: a bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right
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Noun

half-sider (plural half-siders)

  1. A bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right.
  2. An animal that is one color on the left and another on the right.
    • If the lost choromosome had been the one carrying the blue gene, then a visual half-sider would not have resulted, although the bird would still be a genetic half-sider, one side pure Light Green and the other side Light Green/blue.1961, Thomas Geoffrey Taylor, Cyril Warner, Genetics for Budgerigar Breeders, page 104

Forms of half-sider

pluralhalf-siders

Questions about half-sider

What does half-sider mean?
Half-sider means a bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right.
What part of speech is half-sider?
Half-sider is a noun.
What is the plural of half-sider?
The plural of half-sider is half-siders.

Words near half-sider in the dictionary

  1. half-sibling
  2. half-sibling-in-law
  3. half-siblings
  4. half-siblings-in-law
  5. half-sibs
  6. half-sider
  7. half-sighted
  8. half-silvered mirror
  9. half-silvered mirrors
  10. half-sister
  11. half-sisters

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