Meiosis

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  • noun. The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes from diploid to haploid, as in the production of gametes.
  • noun. Rhetorical understatement.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is; understatement; see also litotes.
  • noun. The cellular process by which a diploid progenitor cell forms haploid gametes, including a division of one diploid cell into two cells, each with one of the homologous sets of chromosomes.
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  • noun. A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
  • noun. Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
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  • noun. understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
  • noun. (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
    • Word Usage
    "My own mnemonic system depends on the fact that the word meiosis has been “reduced,” from mitosis, to the extent of not containing the letter t."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    auxesis  hyperbole  litotes  mitosis  paradiastole  
    Form
    meiotic  meiotically  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rhetorical device  understatement  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    litotes  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acidosis  apotheosis  arteriosclerosis  asbestosis  cirrhosis  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Musharraf  infavor  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    diminution  reduction division  understatement  
    variant
    meioses  
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