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Riesling vs Meiosis - What's the difference?

riesling | meiosis |

As nouns the difference between riesling and meiosis

is that riesling is (riesling) while meiosis is (countable|rhetoric) a figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

riesling

English

Alternative forms

* riesling

Noun

(wikipedia Riesling) (en noun)
  • A variety of grape grown especially in Germany and other relatively cool areas.
  • A white wine made from this grape (often slightly sweet).
  • Anagrams

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    meiosis

    English

    Noun

  • (countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
  • I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.
  • (uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce (l).
  • Synonyms

    * (cytology) reduction division

    Antonyms

    * (rhetoric) hyperbole, auxesis, litotes, paradiastole * (cytology) mitosis

    Meronyms

    * (cytology) prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, reduction division, equation division

    Derived terms

    * meiotic * meiotically