noun
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)
• Syn: ↑deVries, ↑Hugo deVries, ↑Hugo De Vries
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑botanist, ↑phytologist, ↑plant scientist
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/deuh vrees"/; Du. /deuh vrddees"/
Hugo /hyooh"goh/; Du. /hyuu"goh/, 1848-1935, Dutch botanist and student of organic heredity: developed the concept of mutation as a factor in the process of evolution.
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[də 'vrēz]Hugo (1848 - 1935), Dutch plant physiologist and geneticist. He did much work on osmosis and water relations in plants, coining the term plasmolysis. His subsequent work on heredity contributed substantially to the chromosome theory of heredity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.