karyotype

1. 1.

   the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes)

   Broaderconstitution

Other forms of karyotype

plural

karyotypes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about karyotype

What does karyotype mean?

karyotype means "the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes)".

How many syllables are in karyotype?

karyotype has 3 syllables: ka-ryo-type. The stress falls on "ka".

Is karyotype a common word?

karyotype is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.