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Imprinted
IMPRINT'ED
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Definition 2024
imprinted
imprinted
English
Verb
imprinted
- simple past tense and past participle of imprint
Adjective
imprinted (comparative more imprinted, superlative most imprinted)
- Stamped or impressed.
- (genetics) Produced by or exhibiting imprinting; showing distinction by its origin from the paternal or maternal genome.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 217:
- The inference is that there is an imprinted' gene somewhere on the X chromosome, which is normally switched on only on the paternal copy and that this gene somehow enhances the development of social adjustment [...].
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 217: