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submetacentric

submetacentric adjective: (of a chromosome) having the centromere between one end and the middle, and thus having a long arm, and a short arm.

Adjective

submetacentric (not comparable)

  1. (of a chromosome) having the centromere between one end and the middle, and thus having a long arm, and a short arm
    • Human chromosome 2 is submetacentric.

Noun

submetacentric (plural submetacentrics)

  1. A submetacentric chromosome.

submetacentric meaning in Tamil

submetacentric in Tamil

கீழ் நடுநுனி

Forms of submetacentric

pluralsubmetacentrics

Origin of submetacentric

From sub- + metacentric.

Questions about submetacentric

What does submetacentric mean?
Submetacentric means (of a chromosome) having the centromere between one end and the middle, and thus having a long arm, and a short arm.
What is submetacentric in Tamil?
Submetacentric in Tamil is கீழ் நடுநுனி. See Submetacentric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is submetacentric?
Submetacentric can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near submetacentric in the dictionary

  1. submessage
  2. submessages
  3. submetabolic
  4. submetabolome
  5. submetabolomes
  6. submetacentric
  7. submetacentrics
  8. submetallic
  9. submetapleural
  10. submetatarsal
  11. submeter

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