Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chromolithograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
chromolithograph . - noun See
chromato- .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chromolithograph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A color print produced by
chromolithography - noun A
prostitute . - adjective genetics Of or relating to the
chromodomain , a protein structural domain associated withchromatin production
Etymologies
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Examples
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The chromosphere extends from the top of the temperature minimum region up another 2000 kilometers and is named for the Greek word chromo which means color.
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(Hey, did you know the Y chromo is shrinking - so to speak?
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They got their name— chromo, the Greek word for color—when, in early genetic research, dyes of different colors were used as means of identification.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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They got their name— chromo, the Greek word for color—when, in early genetic research, dyes of different colors were used as means of identification.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Her chromo-trained aesthetic sense exceeded its education and told her that here were beauty and wonder.
Chapter 4 2010
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He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall.
Chapter 3 2010
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Hence two quarks in a meson are connected by this gluon-chromo-flux tube.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
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Date: 2008-10-05, 1:48PM CDT frame: takara 58cm tapped with waterbottle cage holes/mounts fork: chromo road bike fork...much less rake than the old road bikes had but not as straight as a track fork stem: alloy dia-comp road stem bars: takara road bar tape: brooks black leather with brooks wooden bar ends...retails for $80.. planet bike gel under tape.
Fixed Election: Bikes, Politics, and the Apocalypse BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Tehy r teh reelee unyuzhual, hao tehy mob, n sum haz teh chromo… kromo… kulur-chanjing fingz in tehir skin whitsh kan chanj kulurs in amaazing patturnz, kwiklee oar slooooolee.
teh road to basement cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Hence two quarks in a meson are connected by this gluon-chromo-flux tube.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
treeseed commented on the word chromo
Thefreedictionary.com:
n. pl. chro·mos Informal
A chromolithograph.
February 6, 2008