sex-linkage

sex-link·age

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Definition of sex-linkage word

noun sex-linkage an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other. 1

before 1910

One of the 15% newest English words

First recorded in 1910-15

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