cenome

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English

Etymology

From cene +‎ -ome.

Noun

cenome (plural cenomes)

  1. (genetics) All the control genes of an organism
  2. (cenology) One of the entities that make up a system of cenomics.
    • 2011, James Dickins, Extended Axiomatic Linguistics, page 362:
      Comment: It follows that a cenology (Def. 2bla) which has a cenomics will have only a cenomics; i.e. the cenology (Def. 2bla) will consist entirely of an unordered set of cenomes ( Def . 8a5 ) in opposition to one another.