Usually means: Possessing two different alleles.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterozygous: Merriam-Webster
  2. heterozygous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heterozygous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heterozygous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heterozygous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heterozygous, heterozygous: Wordnik
  7. heterozygous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heterozygous: Wiktionary
  9. heterozygous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. heterozygous: Dictionary.com
  11. Heterozygous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. heterozygous: Rhymezone
  13. heterozygous: FreeDictionary.org
  14. heterozygous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. heterozygous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heterozygous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterozygous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Heterozygous: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Heterozygous: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  5. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  6. heterozygous: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Heterozygous: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  2. heterozygous: Evolution Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heterozygous: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  (genetics) Of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene.

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