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ZYGOTIC
Definition of ZYGOTIC
adjective
Of, pertaining to or existing as a zygote.
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Other senses
ZYGOTIC carries 3 further meanings.
Of, pertaining to, or produced by means of, fertilized eggs or zygotes.
adjective
Of or pertaining to a zygote.
adjective
of or relating to a zygote
Where it comes from
From zygote + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
ZYGOTIC in a sentence
“In the first two examples, and to a lesser extent in large animal zygotes that undergo post-zygotic development without external sources of nutrition (e.g. Xenopus), the resulting hierarchies are fully nested and display the property of summativity.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ZYGOTIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 52 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZYGOTIC starts with Z and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CGIOTYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZYGOTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found ZYGOTIC?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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