meiosis
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
meiosis /mʌɪˈəʊsɪs/
▶noun (pl. meioses /-siːz/)
- 1 Biology a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. Compare with mitosis.
- 2 another term for litotes.
– derivatives
meiotic adjective,
meiotically adverb.
meiotic adjective,
meiotically adverb.
– origin C16: mod. L., from Gk meiōsis, from meioun ‘lessen’.
'meiosis' also found in these Oxford entries:
chiasma
- cytokinesis
- diakinesis
- diplotene
- gametocyte
- gametogenesis
- homologous
- interphase
- leptotene
- mitosis
- pachytene
- segregate
- spermatocyte
- synapsis
- univalent
- zygotene
