English

hypermutant

From hyper- + mutant.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- ‘to exchange’

Latin mūtō ‘move, change’

Latin mūtāns ‘altering, changing, modifying, transforming’

Today it means

noun An organism resulting from hypermutation.

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Etymograph / hypermutant