meiotic

See also: meiòtic

English

Alternative forms

• maiotic (archaic)

Etymology

Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year.

Adjective

meiotic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to meiosis.

   Antonym: nonmeiotic

Translations

of or pertaining to meiosis

• Catalan: meiòtic
• French: méiotique (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: meiotisch
• Greek: μειωτικός (el) m (meiotikós)