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Polysemic vs Polysomic - What's the difference?

polysemic | polysomic |

As adjectives the difference between polysemic and polysomic

is that polysemic is (linguistics) having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings while polysomic is having one or more duplicated chromosomes beyond the normal diploid complement.

As a noun polysomic is

such an organism or chromosome.

polysemic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (linguistics) Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.

    • Synonyms

    * polysemantic * polysemous

    Antonyms

    * monosemous

    Related terms

    * oligosemic * polyseme * polysemy

    polysomic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having one or more duplicated chromosomes beyond the normal diploid complement
  • In auto-polyploids, inheritance that involves pairing of homeologous chromosomes, rather than strictly homologous pairs.

    • Related terms

    * polysomy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • such an organism or chromosome