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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sequence of DNA that codes information for protein synthesis that is transcribed to messenger RNA.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In England, the name given to each of four officers of the yeomen of the royal body-guard; an exempt.
  2. n. A native or inhabitant of Exeter, England.

Wiktionary

  1. n. genetics A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule.
  2. n. An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.
  2. n. engraving An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures

Etymologies

  1. Apparently an attempt to express the pronunciation of French exempt. (Wiktionary)
  2. ex(pressed) + -on1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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