meiosis - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

Synonyms

• litotes
• meiosis

More generic

• rhetorical device
• understatement

Noun

(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

Synonyms

• meiosis
• miosis
• reduction division

More generic

• cell division
• cellular division

More specific

• nondisjunction

Related

• anaphase
• cytokinesis
• karyokinesis
• metaphase
• prophase
• segregation
• telophase

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