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recessive[1,adjective] recessive[2,noun]

Main Entry: ¹re·ces·sive
Pronunciation: ri-ses-iv
Function: adjective
1 : tending to go back
2 : producing a bodily characteristic (as eye color) when homozygous and not masked by a copy of the gene that is dominant <recessive genes>; also : exhibited by the body only when the determining gene is homozygous <blue eye color is a recessive trait>
- re·ces·sive·ly adverb
- re·ces·sive·ness noun

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