assort
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
assort/əˈsɔːt/
▶verb
- 1 Genetics (of genes or characteristics) become distributed among cells or progeny.
- 2 archaic classify.
– origin C15: from OFr. assorter, from a- + sorte ‘sort, kind’.
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