tallness
111lowness — noun 1. a feeling of low spirits he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits • Syn: ↑downheartedness, ↑dejectedness, ↑low spiritedness, ↑dispiritedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑dispirited ( …
112Mendel's law — noun (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research • Topics: ↑genetics, ↑genetic science • Hypernyms:… …
113shortness — noun 1. the property of being of short spatial extent (Freq. 1) the shortness of the Channel crossing • Ant: ↑longness • Derivationally related forms: ↑short • Hypernyms: ↑length …
114tall — adj. & adv. adj. 1 of more than average height. 2 of a specified height (looks about six feet tall). 3 higher than the surrounding objects (a tall building). 4 colloq. extravagant or excessive (a tall story; tall talk). adv. as if tall; proudly;… …
115procerity — prōˈserəd.ē noun ( es) Etymology: Latin proceritas, from procerus high, tall (from pro forward + cerus, from the stem of crescere to grow) + itas ity more at crescent …
116al|lele — «uh LEEL», noun. 1. either of a pair of alternative characteristics, such as tallness and dwarfness, potentially present in the germ cell. 2. a gene, especially one gene of a pair that bear these characteristics. ╂[short for allelomorph] …
117Di|nar|ic — «dih NAR ihk», adjective. 1. of or having to do with the mountain range which extends along the eastern side of the Adriatic. 2. of or having to do with a hypothetical racial group inhabiting the northern Adriatic coast, characterized by tallness …
118re|ces´sive|ness — re|ces|sive «rih SEHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. likely to go back; receding. 2. Biology. of or having to do with a recessive character: »Blue eyes are recessive in a person, brown eyes dominant. In peas tallness is dominant, dwarfness… …
119re|ces´sive|ly — re|ces|sive «rih SEHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. likely to go back; receding. 2. Biology. of or having to do with a recessive character: »Blue eyes are recessive in a person, brown eyes dominant. In peas tallness is dominant, dwarfness… …
120re|ces|sive — «rih SEHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. likely to go back; receding. 2. Biology. of or having to do with a recessive character: »Blue eyes are recessive in a person, brown eyes dominant. In peas tallness is dominant, dwarfness recessive (Heber… …
