TRANSVERSION

Noun

transversion (countable and uncountable, plural transversions)

(genetics) A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa

(literature) The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.

Source: Wiktionary


Trans*ver"sion, n.

Definition: The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

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