Chromosome : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Chromosome	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Chromosome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chromosome n a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chromosome \Chro"mo*some`\, n. [Gr. [?] color + [?] the body.] (Biol.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the {idant} of Weismann.