-tene


  1. a combining form meaning “ribbon,” used in biology to form compound nouns that refer to the shape or number of chromosomes involved in meiosis: leptotene; pachytene; diplotene.

Origin of -tene

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<French -tène (in scientific compounds) <Latin taeniataenia

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