different between homeotic vs hox

English

Alternative forms

• homœotic
• homoeotic

Etymology

From homeosis +? -otic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h?mi???t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

homeotic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to homeosis
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 176:

     A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.

   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 365:

     Further probings revealed the existence of a clutch of master control genes, each directing the development of a section of body, which were dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning ‘similar’) or hox genes.

Derived terms

• polyhomeotic

English

Etymology 1

Noun

hox (plural hoxes)

1. (genetics) Abbreviation of homeobox.

Derived terms

• hox gene

Etymology 2

Verb

hox (third-person singular simple present hoxes, present participle hoxing, simple past and past participle hoxed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.

Synonyms

• hamstring, hock, hough

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:disable

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Armenian ??? (ho?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?x/

Noun

hox m (Arabic spelling ????)

1. plowed field

   Synonym: beyar

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “hox”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press