character state
Biology
noun
The particular form or value that is manifested by a variable character in a specific individual or taxon.
- Distinct character states may be qualitatively different forms (which in numerical taxonomy may be assigned an arbitrary numerical value), including the presence or absence of a feature, or quantifiable differences in a measurable feature..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Evolution.
- repetition sermon
- repetition training
- repetition work
- repetitious
- repetitiously
- repetitiousness
- repetitive
- forget-me-not
- forgettable
- forgetter
- forgivable
- forgivably
- forgive
- forgiveness
- forgiver
- forgiving
- forgivingly
- forgo
- for God's sake!
- forgone
- for good (and all)
- for good measure
- for goodness' sake
- forgot
- forgotten