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IPA transcription: ['mɛndəl]
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Noun
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Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
Usage examples
- Menachem means to console or comfort, Mendel is a diminutive of Menachem.
- The booklet which he designed for the opening features Mendelsohn's coloured sketch.
- Haldane, merged Darwinian selection with a statistical understanding of Mendelian genetics.
- Marvin provides love, Cordelia chicken soup and Mendel some terrible jokes.
- But omitting an account of Mendel's work from his book is, perhaps, unforgivable.
- In the same article, Nate Mendel says We're not really quite sure.
- Esther Mendel struggled on a daily basis to support her children financially.
- In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn.
- Her father, Mendel Locke, was an amateur writer.
- One of his brothers is author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn.