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trite(1) (iou)



trite adjective. M16.
[Latin tritus pa. pple of terere rub.]
1. No longer novel or fresh; stale through constant use or repetition; hackneyed, commonplace. M16.
Vanity Fair Polke continues to use the deliberately trite images of his early paintings. J. Trollope It's so trite to talk about being oneself, but it's what..I truly feel.
2. Physically worn away; well worn, frayed; (of a path) well-beaten. Now rare. L16.
tritely adverb L17.
triteness noun E18.
tritical adjective (joc.) trite, commonplace E18.
tritish adjective L18.

balanced lethal system (medicine)


balanced lethal system
<genetics> A population with non-linked, recessive alleles of a gene, where an individual who has two copies of the recessive allele and is therefore homozygous is dead, while an individual who has only one copy of it, and one copy of a different allele (and is heterozygous) survives.