Mosaic

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A mosaic design.

See also Mosaic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪɪk

Noun

Wikipedia

Singular Mosaic

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1. A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
2. Template:Genetics An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
3. (botany) A viral disease of plants.
4. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

Translations

artwork

Bosnian: mozaik bs(bs) m. Finnish: mosaiikki fi(fi) French: mosaïque fr(fr) f. German: Mosaik de(de) n. Hungarian: mozaik hu(hu)

Polish: mozaika pl(pl) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: мозаик m. Latin: mozaik m. Swedish: mosaik c.

genetically diverse individual

viral disease

composite picture

Adjective

Mosaic (not comparable)

Positive Mosaic

Comparative not comparable

Superlative none (absolute)

1. (of an individual) Containing cells with of varying genetic constitution.

Related terms

• mosaicism

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