单词 | holandric |
释义 | holandric in British English (hɒˈlændrɪk, həʊ-) adjective genetics carried or located on a Y-chromosome, therefore passed on genetically from father to son a holandric trait/gene holandric inheritance/genetic information holandric in American English (hɑˈlændrɪk, hou-) adjective Genetics of or pertaining to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic) Word origin [1925–30; hol- + Gk andrikós masculine, equiv. to andr- (s. of ane᷄r man) + -ikos -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Nazi, dropout, gimmick, payload, recycle-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)Examples of 'holandric' in a sentence |
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