Usually means: Expressed only without dominant allele.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. recessive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. recessive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recessive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recessive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recessive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recessive, recessive: Wordnik
  7. recessive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. recessive: Wiktionary
  9. recessive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. recessive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. recessive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. recessive: Dictionary.com
  13. Recessive (genetics), Recessive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Recessive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. recessive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. recessive: Rhymezone
  17. Recessive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. recessive: Free Dictionary
  19. recessive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. recessive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recessive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recessive: Encyclopedia

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

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  2. recessive: Evolution Glossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See recessively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Going back; receding.
adjective:  (genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.
adjective:  (by extension) Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.
noun:  (genetics) A gene that is recessive.

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