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  • -zygous
    -zygous
    a combining form meaning "having a specified kind of zygote," as in homozygous.
  • –zygous
    –zygous
    A suffix meaning “having zygotes of a specified kind,” as in heterozygous.

-zygous

American  
Biology.

  1. a combining form meaning "having a specified kind of zygote," as in homozygous.

–zygous Scientific  

  1. A suffix meaning “having zygotes of a specified kind,” as in heterozygous.

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