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haplotype
noun
a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together.
More about haplotype
Haplotype is a compound of haplo-, meaning 鈥渟ingle, simple,鈥� and type, 鈥渒ind, sort.鈥� Both of these elements come from Ancient Greek. Haplotype was first recorded in English in the late 1960s, perhaps as a coinage by Italian geneticist Ruggero Ceppellini and his colleagues in 1967.
EXAMPLE OF HAPLOTYPE USED IN A SENTENCE
The Y-chromosome samples from subjects in southern Europe and the Middle East all had the same haplotype, pointing to a common ancestor in ancient Africa.
immensurable
adjective
incapable of being measured; limitless.
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More about immensurable
Immensurable is easily confused with immeasurable, and the resemblance is no coincidence. Both come from Late Latin 尘脓苍蝉奴谤腻产颈濒颈蝉, 鈥渢hat can be measured,鈥� from earlier Latin 尘脓迟墨谤墨, 鈥渢o measure.鈥� Immensurable was first recorded in English around 1530, more than a century after immeasurable.
EXAMPLE OF IMMENSURABLE USED IN A SENTENCE
Without the use of sonar to detect distance, the furthest depths of the ocean would still seem immensurable to scientists today.
More about snollygoster
Snollygoster is a slang term of uncertain origin. It has been proposed that it is connected to snallygaster, a mythical monster from Maryland with a name derived from German schnelle Geister, 鈥渜uick spirits.鈥� One complication here is that snallygaster first appears in the 1940s, while snollygoster was first recorded in English a century earlier in the 1840s.
EXAMPLE OF SNOLLYGOSTER USED IN A SENTENCE
The snollygoster managed to convince much of the audience that his political rivals were responsible for his own errors in judgment.