meiotic
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meiotic
Where it comes from
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. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.
adjective maiotic
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Of or pertaining to meiosis.
Opposite: nonmeiotic
Translations
Talk about this word "meiotic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/meiotic. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. meiotic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/meiotic "meiotic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/meiotic.Cite this
@misc{meiotic_2026,
title = {meiotic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/meiotic},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
