recombinant

1. 1.

   a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred

   Broadercellorganism

1. 1.

   of or relating to recombinant DNA

Other forms of recombinant

plural

recombinants·

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 recombinant

What does recombinant mean?

recombinant means "a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recombinant?

recombinant has 4 syllables: re-com-bi-nant. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈkɑmbɪnənt/.

Is recombinant a common word?

recombinant 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.