1. v.
1. tr. put apart from the rest; isolate.
2 tr. enforce racial segregation on (persons) or in (a community etc.).
3 intr. separate from a mass and collect together.
4 intr. Biol. (of alleles) separate into dominant and recessive groups.
Derivatives:
segregable adj. segregative adj.
Etymology: L segregare (as SE-, grex gregis flock) 2. adj.1 Zool. simple or solitary, not compound.
2 archaic set apart, separate.
Etymology: L segregatus past part. (as SEGREGATE(1))