HETEROSIS

Meaning of HETEROSIS in English

[ ˌhɛtə'rəʊsɪs ]

■ noun technical term for hybrid vigour .

Derivatives

heterotic adjective

Origin

early 20th cent.: from Gk heterōsis 'alteration'.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

HETEROSIS — noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1914 the marked vigor or capacity for growth often exhibited by crossbred animals or plants, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HETEROSIS — or hybrid vigor Increase in such characteristics as size, growth rate, fertility, and yield of a hybrid organism over those …
Английский словарь Британика
HETEROSIS — ˌhed.əˈrōsə̇s noun ( plural hetero·ses -ōˌsēz) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek heterōsis alteration, alteration of heteroiōsis, from heteroioun to alter …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HETEROSIS — (n.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used …
Английский словарь Webster
HETEROSIS — ( n. ) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HETEROSIS — /het'euh roh"sis/ , n. Genetics. the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HETEROSIS — n. increased strength of different characteristics in hybrids (Biology)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HETEROSIS — noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1914 : the marked vigor or capacity for growth often exhibited by crossbred animals or …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HETEROSIS — noun a figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used …
Webster English vocab
HETEROSIS — [het.er.o.sis] n [NL] (1914): the marked vigor or capacity for growth often exhibited by crossbred animals or plants--called also hybrid …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HETEROSIS — also called hybrid vigour the increase in such characteristics as size, growth rate, fertility, and yield of a hybrid organism …
Britannica English vocabulary
HETEROSIS — n. the tendency of a cross-bred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents. [Gk f. heteros different]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HETEROSIS — n. the tendency of a cross-bred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents. [ Gk f. heteros …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HETEROSIS — n. the tendency of a cross-bred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents. Etymology: Gk f. heteros …
Oxford English vocab
HETEROSIS — n. or hybrid vigor Increase in such characteristics as size, growth rate, fertility, and yield of a hybrid organism over …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
HETEROSIS — гетерозис (биология) гетерозис, "гибридная сила"
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HETEROSIS — Гетерозис
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
HETEROSIS — n ( pl -ses) биол. гетерозис, «гибридная сила»
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HETEROSIS — биол. гетерозис (повышение жизнестойкости гибридов в последующих поколениях)
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
HETEROSIS — (n) гетерозис
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HETEROSIS — (a) 'гибридная сила'
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HETEROSIS — n ( pl -ses) биол. гетерозис, «гибридная сила»
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HETEROSIS — n ( pl -ses) биол. гетерозис, «гибридная сила»
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HETEROSIS — гетерозис - mutational heterosis
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
HETEROSIS — гетерозис - mutational heterosis
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
HETEROSIS — гетерозис (биология) гетерозис, "гибридная сила"
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HETEROSIS — n. Pronunciation: ˌ he-t ə - ' r ō -s ə s Function: noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1914 : …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HYBRID VIGOR — noun Date: 1918 heterosis
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HETEROTIC — adjective see: heterosis
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SINGLE CROSS — noun : the heterotic first generation hybrid between two selected and usually inbred lines many commercial hybrid seeds are single …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HYBRID VIGOR — noun : unusual vigor associated with hybridity : heterosis
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HETEROTIC — |hed.ə|räd.ik adjective Etymology: from New Latin heterosis, after such pairs as New Latin narcosis: English narcotic : of, relating to, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary

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