Mendel

American  

[men-dl] / ˈmɛn dl /

noun

1. Gregor Johann 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.

2. a male given name, form of Mandel.

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Mendel British  

/ ˈmɛndəl /

noun

1. Gregor Johann (ˈɡreːɡɔr joˈhan). 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist; founder of the science of genetics. He developed his theory of organic inheritance from his experiments on the hybridization of green peas. His findings were published (1865) but remained unrecognized until 1900 See Mendel's laws

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Mendel Scientific  

/ mĕn′dl /

1. Austrian botanist and founder of the science of genetics. He formulated the important principles, known as Mendel's laws, that form the basis of modern genetics.

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Example Sentences

For more than a century, biology has been guided by the principles of inheritance first described by Gregor Mendel through his famous pea plant experiments.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was responsible for turning Chabad into a global movement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

One of his five sons, Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, assumed leadership of the synagogue and its school.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Their discovery - of the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA - ranks alongside those of Mendel and Darwin in its significance to modern science.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

At the university, just a few miles from his back-alley boardinghouse on Invalidenstrasse, Mendel began to experience the intellectual baptism that he had so ardently sought in Brno.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee