plurivalent, a.
(plʊərɪˈveɪlənt, plʊəˈrɪvələnt)
[f. pluri- + L. valēnt-em, pr. pple. of valēre to be worth.]
= multivalent a., spec. sense 2.
| 1905 E. B. Wilson in Jrnl. Exper. Zoöl. II. 374 In the case of compound or plurivalent chromosomes..McClung's term ‘chromatid’ may conveniently be applied to each of their univalent constituents. 1952 Archivum Linguisticum IV. 169 The sorting out of plurivalent words like G. Preis between ‘prize’ and ‘price’. 1976 Nature 1–8 Jan. 57/1 Aggregation of the minute somatic single chromosomes to large plurivalent chromosomes prevents mistakes in meiotic distribution. |