The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμέρος“part, portion”
- English todaymeromictic
Scientific neologism (1935), after holomictic. From Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part, portion”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”). By surface analysis, mero- + -mictic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμέρος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.