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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape;
- Example: "the centromere is difficult to sequence"
[syn: centromere, kinetochore]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

kinetochore
    n 1: a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that
         appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held
         together to form an X shape; "the centromere is difficult
         to sequence" [syn: centromere, kinetochore]