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单词 matroclinous
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matroclinousadj.

Brit. /ˌmatrəʊˈklʌɪnəs/, U.S. /ˈˌmætroʊˈˌklaɪnəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mātr- , māter , -o- connective, Greek κλίνειν , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin mātr-, māter mother (see matri- comb. form) + -o- connective + ancient Greek κλιν- (in κλίνειν to lean; compare clino- comb. form) + -ous suffix. Compare slightly earlier patroclinous adj.
Biology.
Resembling the female parent more closely than the male; possessing or exhibiting a tendency to inherit a character or characters from the mother only.
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1912 Amer. Naturalist 46 396 It would be necessary to disregard one or the other set of characters if either class of hybrids were defined as patroclinous or matroclinous.
1913 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 15 587 The sons are matroclinous because they receive their unpaired chromosome directly from the mother, and must show all the sex linked characters which she showed.
1925 C. C. Hurst Exper. in Genetics xxxviii. 535 Gametic chromosomes, male and female, are either equal with 7–14–21 or 28 each, or unequal and matroclinous with a maternal bias in the ratio of 1·5–2–3–4 or 5:1.
1968 R. C. King Dict. Genetics 149 In Drosophila the daughters produced by attached-X females are matroclinous in terms of their sex-linked genes.
1994 Chinese Jrnl. Bot. 6 86 The hybrid plants were mainly matroclinous, with a few patroclinous features, such as lower branching etc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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