m 3 e 1 i 1 o 1 t 1 i 1 c 3
7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective of or relating to meiosis
originCoined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.
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