Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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understatement | Yes | No | No | No |
meiosis | Yes | No | No | No |
understatement (noun) | meiosis (noun) |
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a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) |
(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants) |