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-tene
- a combining form meaning “ribbon,” used in biology to form compound nouns that refer to the shape or number of chromosomes involved in meiosis:
leptotene; pachytene; diplotene.
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Other ferules assume a long and graceful shape, and one is decorated with La Tène motives (fig. 45).
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