meiosis

  1. Noun.  (countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce (l, en) .

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