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muutos
mutaatio
Any alteration or change.
puhekieltä Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
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A mutant.
puhekieltä An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
puhekieltä A (m) for a collection of thrushes.
1984, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, Virginia Wildlife, volume 45:
- Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.
2010, Doug Bennet, Tim Tiner, The Complete Up North: A Guide to Ontarios Wilderness from Black Flies to the Northern Lights'', page 57:
- Names for a group: A flute or mutation of thrushes.
2013, Jason Sacher, A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras, page 196:
- A Mutation of ThrushesThe authors of the books of venery were not predicting Darwin with this term, but taking a cue from a common fable of the time.
substitution
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change, alteration, (l)
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