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- pronunciation:
- myu
teIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
part of speech: |
transitive verb & intransitive verb |
inflections: |
mutates, mutating, mutated |
definition: |
to display or cause to display a physical trait or characteristic that is different from one's parent or parents as a result of a change within a gene or chromosome.
The plants that had mutated had much larger leaves than the other plants of the same kind. |
related words: |
change, transform, turn |
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derivation: |
mutative (adj.) |
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