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单词 meiotically
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meioticallyadv.

Brit. /mʌɪˈɒtᵻkli/, U.S. /maɪˈɑdək(ə)li/
Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Greek μειωτικός , meiotic adj., -ally suffix.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek μειωτικός diminishing (see meiotic adj.) + -ally suffix. 20th-cent. examples probably represent a new formation < meiotic adj. + -ally suffix.
1. Rhetoric. In a meiotic manner; by or with meiosis. rare.
ΚΠ
1676 R. Meggott Serm. St. Paul's Day 6 This is that which according to the Hebrew way of speaking is here meiotically expressed by It is not good.
1959 Times 7 Oct. 4/1 To put it meiotically, the match was rather one-sided.
2. Biology. In a meiotic manner; by or with meiosis.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [adverb] > by way of underestimation or undervaluing
sinisterly1529
diminutively1613
inappreciatively1881
pejoratively1890
conservatively1904
meiotically1935
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adverb] > meiosis
meiotically1935
1935 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. xii. 326 After fusion these [nuclei] divide meiotically.
1966 Times 28 Mar. (Austral. Suppl.) p. xiv/5 A γ chromosome might..be attached to another meiotically driven chromosome.
1973 Nature 5 Oct. 259/1 When the brandspore germinates its nucleus divides meiotically to re-establish the haploid sporidial phase.
1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) ii. 22/2 The two micronuclei divide twice meiotically to form eight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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