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9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the first stage of meiosis
noun the first stage of mitosis
originAncient Greek πρόφασις (próphasis, “pretense, pretext, excuse”), first popularized by Thucydides, who attempted to discern Athens' alethestate prophasis, or "truest reason" for waging war on Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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