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IPA transcription: ['mɛndəl]

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Noun

  • 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.