phenotypically

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adverb

With regard to the phenotype.

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English phenotypic →
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Meanings

adverbphenotypically (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyWith regard to the phenotype.

    These cells that result from genome transplantation are phenotypically identical to the M. mycoides LC donor strain as judged by several criteria.

    2007 August 3, Carole Lartigue et al., "Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another," doi:10.1126/science.1144622, Science, ISSN 0036-8075, volume 317, number 5838, page 632

Origin

  1. Englishphenotype
  2. Englishphenotypic
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  6. Proto-Germanic*līką
  7. Englishphenotypically

From phenotypic + -ally.

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Chicago

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