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meiosis

English

  1. 🔊 (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms
  2. 🔊 understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
    “saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 meiosis meiosis

Similar words

litotes miosis reduction division