v.
/
ˈsɛgrɪgeɪt/
- set apart from the rest or from each other.
- separate along racial, sexual, or religious lines.
- Genetics (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes.
n.
/
ˈsɛgrɪgət/
- Genetics an allele that has undergone segregation.
- Botany a species within an aggregate.
Derivative
- segregable adj.
- segregative adj.
Etymology
C16: from L. segregat-, segregare ‘separate from the flock’.