meioticadj.

1905 J. B. Farmer & J. E. S. Moore in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 48 489 We propose to apply the terms Maiosis or Maiotic phase to cover the whole series of nuclear changes included in the two divisions that were designated as Heterotype and Homotype by Flemming.

1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 270 This differentiation will come about at this reduction, or meiotic division, as it is called.

1952 A. M. Srb & R. D. Owen Gen. Genetics vii. 119 The period between the two meiotic divisions is designated by the special term interkinesis. It may be rather long, but typically it is very short.

1962 Lancet 15 Dec. 1270/1 Three types of meiotic non-disjunction have been recognised.

1973 Nature 5 Oct. 261/2 For spermatozoa and meiotic preparations, ripening testes were removed.

1993 L. Margulis et al. Illustr. Gloss. Protoctista p. xix/2 The ritualized cell membrane fusion events required for meiotic sexuality are a distinguishing feature of the Protoctista and their descendants.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 17 June 2/2 Is there not..a good deal to be said for the meiotic method [of portraying the Caesars] preferred by Sir Lawrence Tadema?

1915 Oxf. Mag. 18 June 38/2 We have occasionally mentioned in mild meiotic terms that the Oxford roads do not wholly satisfy our ideal of perfection.

1988 New Yorker 12 Sept. 61/1 These seemingly meiotic statements are merely the honest assessments of someone who drives three thousand miles a week.