Definitions for recessive

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recessive re·ces·sive

Spelling: [ri-ses-iv]

IPA: /rɪˈsɛs ɪv/

Recessive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in recessive (ceeeirssv).

Definitions for recessive

noun

1. that one of a pair of alternative alleles whose effect is masked by the activity of the second when both are present in the same cell or organism.
2. the trait or character determined by such an allele. Compare dominant (def 6).

adjective

1. tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
2. Genetics. of or relating to a recessive.
3. Phonetics. (of an accent) showing a tendency to recede from the end toward the beginning of a word.

Origin of recessive

1665-75; Latin recess(us) (see recess) + -ive

Examples for recessive

The preceding examples have all related to recessive characters.

Yellow is said therefore to be dominant and green to be recessive.

Feeble-mindedness, for example, seems to be a Mendelian character and recessive.

Defectiveness is a recessive factor; normality a dominant one.

In fact, European life had been intensive and recessive ever since the fall of the Roman Empire a thousand years before.

The defect seems to behave in the manner of a Mendelian recessive.

So it is with the Dominant and the recessive traits in living organisms.

This normal factor is recessive for notch but dominant for life.

In stark contrast with the sunny personality of his predecessor, Tony Blair, Brown's demeanor is dour, recessive and technocratic.

The Himalayan pattern behaves as a recessive to self-colour.