Idant

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

  Chromosome \Chro"mo*some`\, n. [Gr. ? color + ? the body.]
     (Biol.)
     One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the
     nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the {idant}
     of Weismann.
     [1913 Webster]