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overdominant

overdominant adjective: excessively dominant.

Adjective

overdominant (comparative more overdominant, superlative most overdominant)

  1. Excessively dominant.
    • What would cause this reversal in a male's development? One possible answer could be that an overdominant mother is seductive to the child, and the father is weak and detached.1991, Richard Evan Jones, Human Reproductive Biology, page 451
  2. Exhibiting overdominance.

overdominant meaning in Tamil

overdominant in Tamil

மேலோங்கிய

Forms of overdominant

comparativemore overdominant
superlativemost overdominant

Origin of overdominant

From over- + dominant.

Words formed from overdominant

Questions about overdominant

What does overdominant mean?
Overdominant means excessively dominant.
What is overdominant in Tamil?
Overdominant in Tamil is மேலோங்கிய. See Overdominant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overdominant?
Overdominant is an adjective.

Words near overdominant in the dictionary

  1. overdomesticated
  2. overdomesticates
  3. overdomesticating
  4. overdomestication
  5. overdominance
  6. overdominant
  7. overdominantly
  8. overdominate
  9. overdominated
  10. overdominates
  11. overdominating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overdominant (page history and authors); overdominant (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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