recessive

Definition

Going back; receding.

Etymology

From Latin recēdō + -ive, or directly from New Latin recessīvus.

Example Sentences

• "1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3, The Lydenburg male and the other two females have the infuscate pattern definitely more recessive and less evident, although traceable."
• "This plan takes advantage of the fact that barless is the most recessive of a series of alleles."
• "The series of murine Agouti alleles is a consistent array as it progresses from the most recessive to the most dominant allele (Jackson, 1994)."