Vavilovian

English

Etymology

Vavilov +‎ -ian

Adjective

Vavilovian (not comparable)

1. (botany, genetics) Of, or related to the scientific discoveries of the Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist Nikolai Vavilov.
   • 2006, Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter G. Stone, A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present‎^[1]:

     It is sufficient to emphasise how strongly the Vavilovian concept, and geographical pattern, of centres of origin constrained research on the beginnings of agriculture in the second half of the twentieth century.

See also

• Vavilovian mimicry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia