dwarfness
- a word derived from dwarf.
Example Sentences
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If we are to get the effect of dwarfness, we must be sure that the stock is itself really dwarf.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
For coloured flowers are dominant to white, and tallness is dominant to dwarfness.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall
Such hybrid F1 plants, therefore, must produce a series of ovules consisting of those bearing tallness and those bearing dwarfness, and must produce them in equal numbers.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall
A given gamete could carry tallness or dwarfness, but not both.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall
Mendel applied his analytic method to such things as the colour of the pea, the smooth or wrinkled character of the skin which covered it, its dwarfness or height, and so on.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir
