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zygotelike

zygotelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a zygote.

Adjective

zygotelike (comparative more zygotelike, superlative most zygotelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a zygote.
    • Surprisingly, activation of oocytes occurred in the absence of meiotic resumption, resulting in cells with an oocytelike nucleus and interior cytoplasm, but with a zygotelike cortex.1989 January 3, W M Bement, D G Capco, “Activators of protein kinase C trigger cortical granule exocytosis, cortical contraction, and cleavage furrow formation in Xenopus laevis oocytes and eggs.”...

Forms of zygotelike

comparativemore zygotelike
superlativemost zygotelike

Origin of zygotelike

From zygote + -like.

Questions about zygotelike

What does zygotelike mean?
Zygotelike means resembling or characteristic of a zygote.
What part of speech is zygotelike?
Zygotelike is an adjective.

Words near zygotelike in the dictionary

  1. zygosynapophyseal
  2. zygotactic
  3. zygotal
  4. zygotaxis
  5. zygote
  6. zygotelike
  7. zygotene
  8. zygotenes
  9. zygotenic
  10. zygotes
  11. zygotic

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