triparental

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ parental.

Adjective

triparental (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Involving three parents, but especially describing a form of bacterial conjugation in which a conjugative plasmid present in a "helper" bacterial strain assists the transfer of plasmid from a second to a third strain.
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