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homoeotic

homoeotic is the alternative form of homeotic.

Meaning of homeotic

Adjective

homeotic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to homeosis
    • A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 176

Questions about homoeotic

What is homoeotic the alternative form of?
Homoeotic is the alternative form of homeotic.

Words near homoeotic in the dictionary

  1. homoeotherm
  2. homoeothermal
  3. homoeothermic
  4. homoeothermous
  5. homoeotherms
  6. homoeotic
  7. homoeotype
  8. homoeotypes
  9. homoepitaxial
  10. homoepitaxially
  11. homoepitaxies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homoeotic (page history and authors); homeotic (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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