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fosmid

noun

Etymology

Blend of fertility + cosmid?

  1. derived from πλάσμα
  2. derived from plasma
  3. suffixed as plasmid — “plasma + id”
  4. compounded as cosmid — “cos + plasmid”
  5. compounded as fosmid — “fertility + cosmid”

Definitions

  1. A cosmid related to a bacterial fertility factor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fosmid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA