Definition of "synizesis" []

• Linguistics The union in pronunciation of two adjacent vowels into one syllable without forming a diphthong. (noun)
• Biology The phase of meiosis in some species in which the chromatin contracts into a mass at one side of the nucleus. (noun)

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