Usually means: Genes controlling body plan development.
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  1. hox: Merriam-Webster
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  3. HOX, hox: Wiktionary
  4. HOX, Hox: Dictionary.com
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  6. Hox: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. hox: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Hox: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. hox: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. hox: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Hox: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. hox: Collins English Dictionary

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  1. HOX: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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  1. hox: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hox)

verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.
noun:  (chemistry) hypohalous acid
noun:  (genetics) Abbreviation of homeobox. [(genetics) A short sequence of DNA that is shared by several genes involved in the morphogenesis of many organisms.]

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