morgan
morgan Lexical Profile
morgan Game Scores & Validity
• noun
(usually capitalized) A horse of a compact, muscular American breed developed in New England, known for its versatility, stamina, and gentle temperament.
"The equestrian center uses a steady bay Morgan for both dressage lessons and trail riding."
A unit of relative distance between genes on a chromosome, representing a crossover frequency of one hundred percent (most commonly used in its hundredth subdivision, the centimorgan).
"Geneticists measure linkage map distances in fractions of a morgan to estimate how frequently two loci recombine during meiosis."
British (archaic or dialectal) Any of several weedy plants found in southern England, especially stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula).
"The farmhands spent the afternoon pulling wild morgan from the edges of the barley field."
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Word Origin & Etymology
As a horse breed (usually capitalized), named after Justin Morgan (1747–1798), the Vermont schoolteacher who owned the foundation sire Figure; as a unit of genetic linkage, named after American geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945).