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   segregate

   verb

   • 1. set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide: "apprehensions about groups segregated from the rest of society"
   • ▪ separate or divide along racial, sexual, or religious lines: "black people were segregated in churches, schools, and colleges"
   • 2. (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes: "the gene pairs segregate at reduction division"

   noun

   • 1. an allele that has undergone segregation.
   • 2. a species within an aggregate.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Latin segregat- ‘separated from the flock’, from the verb segregare, from se- ‘apart’ + grex, greg- ‘flock’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. segregable adjective
   • 2. segregative adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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