Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reduction_division

1 sense of reduction division

Sense 1
meiosis, miosis, reduction division -- ((genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants))
       => cell division, cellular division -- (the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells)