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meiosis

/maɪ'oʊsɪs/

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

type of:
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)
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miosis reduction division

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cellular division cell division

Definition that contains meiosis

nondisjunction meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells