English

Alternative forms

• homœotic
• homoeotic

Adjective

homeotic ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to homeosis.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 176:

     A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.

   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 365:

     Further probings revealed the existence of a clutch of master control genes, each directing the development of a section of body, which were dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning ‘similar’) or hox genes.