Recessive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recessive \Re*ces"sive\ (r[-e]*s[e^]s"s[i^]v), a.
     1. Going back; receding.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Genetics) Not appearing in the phenotype unless both
        alleles of the organism have the same trait; -- of genetic


        characteristics, or of the genes coding for such
        characteristics, in diploid organisms. Opposite of
        {dominant}; hemophilia is a recessive trait.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recessive \Re*ces"sive\ (r[-e]*s[e^]s"s[i^]v), n. (Genetics)
     A genetic trait determined by a recessive[2] allele; a trait
     not appearing in the phenotype unless both chromosomes of the
     organism have the same allele; also, an allele which is
     recessive[2].
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recessive
       adj 1: of or pertaining to a recession [syn: {recessionary}]
       2: of genes; producing its characteristic phenotype only when
          its allele is identical [ant: {dominant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "recessive":
     atavistic, reactionary, recedent, recessional, recessionary,
     recidivist, recidivous, regressive, retroactive, retrocedent,
     retrocessive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse,
     returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible,
     revulsionary