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orthologues

orthologues is the plural of orthologue.

Meaning of orthologue

Noun

orthologue (plural orthologues)

  1. One of two or more homologous gene sequences found in different species.

Questions about orthologues

What is orthologues the plural of?
Orthologues is the plural of orthologue.

Words near orthologues in the dictionary

  1. orthologization
  2. orthologous
  3. orthologously
  4. orthologs
  5. orthologue
  6. orthologues
  7. orthology
  8. orthomagmatic
  9. orthomegodont
  10. orthometer
  11. orthometric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orthologues (page history and authors); orthologue (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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