Usually means: Unit of heredity, encodes proteins.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. -gene, gene: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -gene, gene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gene: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gene, gene: Wordnik
  7. gene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gene, gene: Wiktionary
  9. gene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -gene, gene: Dictionary.com
  13. gene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gene: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gene (band), Gene (disambiguation), Gene (journal), Gene (name), Gene, The Gene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. gene: Rhymezone
  17. gene, gene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. -gene, gene: MyWord.info
  19. gene: Free Dictionary
  20. gene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gene: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. gene: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -gene: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Gene: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Gene: Diabetes Dictionary
  6. Gene(s): Merck Manuals
  7. Gene: Diabetes
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  11. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  12. gene: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  13. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  14. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  15. Gene: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  16. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  17. gene: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  18. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  20. -gene, gene: Medical dictionary
  21. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  22. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  23. Gene: Drug Medical Dictionary
  24. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. GENE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. gene: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  4. Gene: Biology dictionary
  5. Gene: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  6. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  7. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  10. Biological Control (No longer online)
  11. gene: Evolution Glossary
  12. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)
  13. Biodiversity (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (genetics) A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
noun:  (molecular biology) A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.
noun:  A diminutive of Eugene, also used as a formal male given name.

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