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meiotic, a.|maɪˈɒtɪk|
[f. Gr. µειωτικ-ός diminishing (see meiosis).]
1. Rhet. That represents things as less than they really are; characterized by meiosis or litotes.
1907Westm. Gaz. 17 June 2/2 Is there not..a good deal to be said for the meiotic method [of portraying the Caesars] preferred by Sir Lawrence Tadema? 1915Oxf. Mag. 18 June 38/2 We have occasionally mentioned in mild meiotic terms that the Oxford roads do not wholly satisfy our ideal of perfection.
2. Biol. (Formerly also maiotic.) That is characterized by meiosis (sense 3); of, pertaining to, or occurring at meiosis.
1905[see meiosis 3]. 1913W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (rev. ed.) 270 This differentiation will come about at this reduction, or meiotic division, as it is called. 1952Srb & Owen Gen. Genetics vii. 119 The period between the two meiotic divisions is designated by the special term interkinesis. It may be rather long, but typically it is very short. 1962Lancet 15 Dec. 1270/1 Three types of meiotic non-disjunction have been recognised. 1973Nature 5 Oct. 261/2 For spermatozoa and meiotic preparations, ripening testes were removed.
Hence meiˈotically adv.
1676R. Meggott Sermon preached on St. Paul's Day 6 This is that which according to the Hebrew way of speaking is here meiotically expressed by It is not good. 1959Times 7 Oct. 4/1 To put it meiotically, the match was rather one-sided. 1966Times 28 Mar. (Austral. Suppl.) p. xiv/5 A γ chromosome might..be attached to another meiotically driven chromosome. 1968R. Rieger Gloss. Genetics & Cytogenetics 274 Thus, the zygotic (diploid) chromosome number is meiotically reduced to the gametic (haploid) number. 1973Nature 5 Oct. 259/1 When the brandspore germinates its nucleus divides meiotically to re-establish the haploid sporidial phase. |