re|ces´sive|ness

re|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 recessive (Heber W. Youngken).

3. (of accent) tending to move from one syllable of a word to a syllable nearer the beginning of the word: »

recessive stress is a tendency in current English (Simeon Potter).

–n. Biology.
1. a recessive character or gene: »

In a heterozygote the genes are of two kinds, dominants and recessives (Heber W. Youngken).

2. an individual possessing or transmitting a recessive character.
–re|ces´sive|ly, adverb.
–re|ces´sive|ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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