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meiotic

meiotic adjective: of or pertaining to meiosis.

Adjective

meiotic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to meiosis.
    Antonyms:
    nonmeiotic

meiotic meaning in Tamil

meiotic in Tamil

ஒடுக்கப்பிரிவுக்குரிய

Antonyms of meiotic

Forms of meiotic

alternative form (archaic)maiotic

Origin of meiotic

Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.

Words formed from meiotic

Questions about meiotic

What does meiotic mean?
Meiotic means of or pertaining to meiosis.
What is meiotic in Tamil?
Meiotic in Tamil is ஒடுக்கப்பிரிவுக்குரிய. See Meiotic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is meiotic?
Meiotic is an adjective.

Words near meiotic in the dictionary

  1. meiospores
  2. meiostemonous
  3. meiotaxy
  4. meiotherm
  5. meiotherms
  6. meiotic
  7. meiotically
  8. Meir
  9. Meirav
  10. Meiring
  11. Meiringen

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