meiosis

Other forms of meiosis

plural

meioses

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 meiosis

What does meiosis mean?

meiosis means "(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meiosis?

meiosis has 3 syllables: me-io-sis. The stress falls on "io". In IPA it is /maɪˈoʊsəs/.

What is another word for meiosis?

Close synonyms include miosis, reduction division, litotes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meiosis a common word?

meiosis 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.

What rhymes with meiosis?

6 words rhyme with meiosis. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.