Usually means: Cell division producing reproductive cells.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. meiosis: Merriam-Webster
  2. meiosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meiosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meiosis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meiosis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Meiosis, meiosis: Wordnik
  7. meiosis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. meiosis: Wiktionary
  9. meiosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meiosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meiosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. meiosis: Dictionary.com
  13. meiosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Meiosis (figure of speech), Meiosis (rhetoric), Meiosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Meiosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. meiosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. meiosis: Rhymezone
  18. Meiosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. meiosis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. meiosis: FreeDictionary.org
  21. meiosis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. meiosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. meiosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Meiosis: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. MEIOSIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meiosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. meiosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Meiosis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  8. meiosis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Meiosis: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  10. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  11. meiosis: Medical dictionary
  12. Meiosis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. meiosis: A Word A Day
  2. meiosis: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Meiosis: Biology dictionary
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. meiosis: Evolution Glossary
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  8. meiosis: Natural History Terms
  9. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meiosis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
noun:  (usually uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

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