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short-sleeper

short-sleeper is the alternative form of short sleeper.

Meaning of short sleeper

Noun

short sleeper (plural short sleepers)

  1. A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.
    • The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158

Forms of short-sleeper

pluralshort-sleepers

Questions about short-sleeper

What is short-sleeper the alternative form of?
Short-sleeper is the alternative form of short sleeper.

Words near short-sleeper in the dictionary

  1. short-short story
  2. short-shorts
  3. short-sighted
  4. short-sightedly
  5. short-sightedness
  6. short-sleeper
  7. short-sleepers
  8. short-sleeved
  9. short-sold
  10. short-spoken
  11. short-staff

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