antigenic meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

antigenic

adj

Etymology From antigen + -ic.

Immunology, Medicine, Sciences Of or relating to an antigen.

Derived terms: alloantigenic, antigenically, antigenic drift, antigenicity, antigenic shift, antigenic variation, multiantigenic, neoantigenic, nonantigenic, oligoantigenic, original antigenic sin, pathoantigenic, polyantigenic, superantigenic, xenoantigenic

adj

Etymology From antigeny + -ic.

Biology, Natural sciences Obsolete Sexually dimorphic, especially with reference to lepidopterans.

[I]n which case, the males are normal, and the species generally antigenic.1889, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, volume 1, page 535:

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