segregated


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
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.
noun /ˈsɛgrɪgət/ 
  • 1 Genetics an allele that has undergone segregation.
  • 2 Botany a species within an aggregate.
– derivatives
segregable adjective,
segregative adjective.
– origin C16: from L. segregat-, segregare ‘separate from the flock’.
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