noun🔗ShareAny alteration or change."The mutations in the school's lunch menu this year are quite noticeable. "biologymedicineorganismscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAny heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material."Sunlight can cause mutations in skin cells, sometimes leading to skin cancer. "biologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA mutant."Due to random mutations, some flowers in the garden grew with unusual colors and shapes. "organismbiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context."Welsh grammar is known for its initial consonant mutations, where the beginning sound of a word changes based on the words around it. "languagelinguisticsphoneticsgrammarwordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA group of thrushes."While hiking in the forest, we spotted mutations of thrushes foraging for berries near a stream. "animalbirdgroupChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading