trait

a sermon with a trait of humor.

individual traits of style.

a built-in trait of human nature

familial traits; familial disease.

inheritable traits; inheritable property.

the traditionally British trait of self-denigration.

character traits that set her apart.

a laundry mark) or to an indication of a distinctive trait or characteristic:

How many of these traits are genetically inherited?

How dumbly eloquent!What suggestion of imperturbability and being, as against the human trait of mere seeming.

The traits of familial keloids were transmitted interruptedly, revealing incomplete penetrance.

Life history traits of mictic females in two strains of Brachionus calyciflorus (Rotifera).

We do not know which behavioural traits are inherited and which acquired.

For the heredity of the early mature traits, the additive effect took the dominant position, but the effects of the nonadditive gene and reverse cross could not be ignored.

Genetic analysis showed that the green-revertible albino trait was controlled by a sin-gle recessive nucleic gene.

The rhythmization of the visional art, also called the "silent voice", can be considered as the most important trait of the calligraphic art.

The traits measured on fat samples were intensity smell, meat smell, subacid smell, rank pig smell, rancid smell, and off smell.

Its existence is due to its peculiar traits, among which the most important ones are particular autorhythmicity, self coerciveness, universal penetrability and lofty ideality.

The results showed among the regrowth traits after fall defoliation, regrowth plants height was not correlative observably with coldhardiness since the correlative coefficient of them was just -0.389.

Darwin accepted blending inheritance, but Fleeming Jenkin calculated that as it mixed traits, natural selection could not accumulate useful traits.