chromosome

Etymology
19th century: from, ultimately from +  (because they are stained under the microscope). Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: كْرُومُوسُوم, صِبْغِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: cromosoma
 * Azerbaijani: xromosom
 * Belarusian: храмасо́ма
 * Bengali: তন্তুসদৃশ বস্তু
 * Bulgarian: хромозо́ма, хромозо́м
 * Burmese: ခရိုမိုဆုမ်း
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Eastern Min: 染色體
 * Hakka: 染色體
 * Hokkien: 染色體
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: chromozom
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kromosoom
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქრომოსომა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: રંગસૂત્ર
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गुणसूत्र, गुण सूत्र
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: crómasóm
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ವರ್ಣತಂತು
 * Kazakh: хромосома
 * Khmer: វណ្ណាង្គ, ក្រូម៉ូសូម
 * Korean:, 물들체
 * Kyrgyz: хромосома
 * Lao: ກະໂລໂມຊົມ
 * Latvian: hromosoma
 * Lithuanian: chromosoma
 * Macedonian: хромозом
 * Maori: pūira
 * Marathi: गुणसूत्र
 * Mongolian: хромосом
 * Nepali: गुणसूत्र
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kromosom
 * Nynorsk: kromosom
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: رنگین تن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਗੁਣਸੂਤਰ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хромозом
 * Roman: hromozom
 * Slovak: chromozóm
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chembeuzi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kromosoma
 * Tajik: хромосома
 * Tamil:, நிறமூர்த்தம்
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хромосо́ма
 * Uzbek: xromosoma
 * Vietnamese: chất sinh sắt, nhiểm sắc thể
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: gromosoom
 * Yiddish: כראָמאָסאָם

Etymology
19th century:, from , ultimately from +  (because they are stained under the microscope).