Meanings
- not comparableLacking claws.
Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed, indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.
1920, Journal of Genetics, volume 9, page 165
Origin
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