See Also: endomitosis(medicine)
bushy(medicine)
bushy(1)(dictionary)
bushy(2)(dictionary)
bushy(dictionary)

bushy(1) (iou) and endomitosis (medicine)


bushy(1) (iou)



bushy adjective. LME.
[from BUSH noun1 + -Y1.]
Having many bushes; covered with bush. LME.
Growing thickly; like a bush. M16.
Comb.: bushy-tailed adjective with a bushy tail; fig. alert, lively (freq. in bright-eyed and bushy-tailed).

endomitosis (medicine)


endomitosis
<cell biology> Chromosome replication without mitosis, leading to polyploidy. Many rounds of endomitosis give rise to the giant polytene chromosomes of Dipteran salivary glands, though in this case the daughter chromosomes remain synapsed.