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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Chromosome

/krōm'-əs-ōmˌ/ · Chro·mo·some · IPA /ˈkɹoʊməˌsoʊm/
01 n. One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
  1. 1.
    One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.(Biol.) Also: idant