Usually means: Carrier of two different alleles.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterozygote: Merriam-Webster
  2. heterozygote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heterozygote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heterozygote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heterozygote: Vocabulary.com
  6. heterozygote: Wordnik
  7. heterozygote: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heterozygote: Wiktionary
  9. heterozygote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heterozygote: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. heterozygote: Dictionary.com
  12. Heterozygote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. heterozygote: FreeDictionary.org
  14. heterozygote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. heterozygote: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heterozygote: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterozygote: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heterozygote: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  8. heterozygote: Medical dictionary
  9. Heterozygote: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  3. heterozygote: Evolution Glossary

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  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (heterozygote)

noun:  (genetics) A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
noun:  (biology) A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.

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