The state or property of being recessive; spec. = recessivity, n.

An individual in which a particular recessive allele is expressed; a recessive allele or trait.

Biology. The phenomenon whereby one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in a phenotype while the other allele is masked; the…

Technical and scientific uses; in Machinery, etc., the name of various contrivances for connecting… Genetics. (See quots.)

Originally: the apparent dominance of a recessive allele in a heterozygote resulting from the deletion (or inactivation) of all or part of the…

Genetics. A recessive allele manifesting as a dominant phenotype because of pseudodominance.