meiosis

Etymology
From, from , from. The biological sense was and  as  in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. .

Noun

 * 1)  A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
 * 2)  Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce.
 * 1)  Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce.
 * 1)  Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce.
 * 1)  Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce.
 * 1)  Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce.

Translations

 * Basque: meiosi
 * Bengali: মিয়োসিস
 * Catalan: meiosi, miosi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 減數分裂
 * Hokkien: 減數分裂
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mejozo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მეიოზი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अर्धसूत्रण, अर्धसूत्री विभाजन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: rýriskipting, meiósa
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಮಿಯಾಸಿಸ್
 * Kazakh: мейоз
 * Kyrgyz: мейоз
 * Malayalam: ഊനഭംഗം, മയോസിസ്
 * Maori: wehenga pūtau
 * Mongolian: мейоз
 * Occitan: meiòsi
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, miose
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:, mayoz bölünme
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
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