Crossword-Solution: RECESSIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recessive | a. | Going back; receding. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECESSIVE | anagram | ESERVICES |
We have 10 clues for the answer “RECESSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Genetic opposite of dominant | 1 answer |
| Kind of gene that is not dominant | 1 answer |
| Like blue eyes | 1 answer |
| Not dominant. | 1 answer |
| Tending to withdraw | 1 answer |
| type of gene | 3 answers |
| Like some genes | 3 answers |
| DRAWING back | 3 answers |
| receding | 68 answers |
| Withdrawn | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RECESSIVE (5)
She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes.
She studied him curiously on the various occasions when they met, and, finding him bashful and recessive, set out to lure him.
They distinguish between “dominant” and “recessive” qualities, and they establish cases in which parents with all the dominant characteristics produce offspring of recessive type.
Recessive qualities are constantly being masked by dominant ones and emerging again in the next generation.
Hence it follows that in the hybrid the latent or dormant unit is recessive, but it does not follow that these three terms have the same meaning, as we shall see presently.
Quotes with RECESSIVE (3)
Ego is recessive in wisdom.
I resolved to come right to the point. "Hello," I said as coldly as possible, "we've got to talk.""Yes, Bob," he said quietly, "what's on your mind?" I shut my eyes for a moment, letting the raging frustration well up inside, then stared angrily at the psychiatrist." Look, I've been religious about this recovery business. I go to AA meetings daily and to your sessions twice a week. I know it's good that I've stopped drinking. But every other aspect of my life feels the same a…
Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant. When you want strong coffee, you ask for black coffee. If you want it light, you want it weak, integrated with white milk. Just like these Negroes who weaken themselves and their race by this integrating and intermixing with whites. If you want bread with no nutritional value, you ask for…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1960–2003).