lethals
SayLEE-thuhlz/ˈli.θəlz/
- 1Plural of lethal.
Recessive lethals can persist in a population for many generations without being noticed.
Geneticists mapped several lethals to the same chromosome region.
Note
A plural that only two of the noun's meanings can take: weapons that kill, and alleles that kill the organism carrying them. The chemists' lethal, a white crystalline alcohol obtained from spermaceti, is a mass noun with no plural, and the adjective never takes an -s. In genetics the plural is common, because such alleles are usually discussed several at a time.
lethals is a form of lethal
lethal, noun: A weapon capable of causing death. Full entry
- Forms
- lethallethals plural
- Spelling
- lethal → lethals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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