Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The tangle of filaments that appears at the beginning of the prophase portion of meiosis or mitosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stage of the nucleus in karyokinesis, or mitosis, during which the chromatin assumes the form of a continuous or segmented thread.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[German Spirem, from Greek speirēma, coil, from speirāsthai, to be coiled around, from speira, coil.]
Examples
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Flemming, on the other hand, clung to his erroneous view that all the chromosomes are at first united into one long continu - ous thread, a “spireme,” which later breaks up into the separate chromosomes.
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