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segregate
▶verb /ˈsɛgrɪgeɪt/
- 1 set apart from the rest or from each other.
- 2 separate along racial, sexual, or religious lines.
- 3 Genetics (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes.
- 1 Genetics an allele that has undergone segregation.
- 2 Botany a species within an aggregate.
– derivatives
segregable adjective,
segregative adjective.
segregable adjective,
segregative adjective.
– origin C16: from L. segregat-, segregare ‘separate from the flock’.
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