Weismann

Definition: Weismann

Weismann

Noun

1. German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914).

Date "Weismann" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Synonym: Weismann

Synonym: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Weismann

English words defined with "Weismann": August Friedrich Leopold Weismann. (references)

"Weismann" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weismann" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	38	55,818

Expression using "Weismann": August Friedrich Leopold Weismann. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-n-s-w"
	-1 letter: manwise, newsman.
	-2 letters: amines, animes, inanes, insane, inseam, mesian, nanism, semina, sienna.
	-3 letters: amens, amies, amine, amins, anime, anise, inane, mains, manes, manse, means, mensa, miens, minae, minas, mines, names, nemas, nines, senna, sewan, sinew, swain, swami, swine, wains, wames, wanes, weans, wines.
	-4 letters: aims, ains, amen, amie, amin, amis, anes, anew, anis, awes.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-n-s-w"
	+3 letters: winemakings, womanliness.
	+4 letters: newsmagazine, womanishness.
	+5 letters: businesswoman, newsmagazines, warmongerings, womanlinesses.
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