recessive Definition
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recessive
adj
- 1. Tending to recede.
- Thesaurus: receding, regressive, retrograde, declining, diminishing, ebbing, shrinking.
- Denoting an allele (gene) appearing in an organism's visible characteristics only if its partner allele on a paired chromosome is also recessive, as opposed to dominant;
- Denoting a characteristic determined by such a gene. See also dominant.
- Said of stress: tending to move towards the beginning of the word.
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