imprinted
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
imprinted
- simple past and past participle of imprint
Adjective[edit]
imprinted (comparative more imprinted, superlative most imprinted)
- Stamped or impressed.
- (genetics) Produced by or exhibiting imprinting; showing distinction by its origin from the paternal or maternal genome.
- '1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 217:
- The inference is that there is an imprinted gene somewhere on the X chromosome, which is normally switched on only on the paternal copy and that this gene somehow enhances the development of social adjustment [...].
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Translations[edit]
stamped or impressed
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