Usually means: Environmental mimicry of genetic traits.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenocopy: Merriam-Webster
  2. phenocopy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phenocopy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. phenocopy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. phenocopy: Wiktionary
  6. phenocopy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. phenocopy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. phenocopy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. phenocopy: Dictionary.com
  10. Phenocopy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. phenocopy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phenocopy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenocopy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Phenocopy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. phenocopy: Medical dictionary
  7. Phenocopy: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See phenocopies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (phenocopy)

noun:  (genetics) A variation in an organism that resembles a genetic one, but has an environmental rather than a genetic cause, and is not inherited
verb:  (genetics) To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation

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