Etymograph

English

genotropism

From geno- + -tropism.

Formed from geno + tropism

Proto-Indo-European *trep- ‘to turn’

Ancient Greek τρέπω ‘turn, divert, turn back, rout an enemy’

Ancient Greek τρόπος ‘a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure…’

Latin tropus ‘a figurative use of a word, a trope’

English tropism

Today it means

noun The reciprocal attraction between carriers of the same or related latent recessive genes

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