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multilocus

adjective

multilocus is an adjective meaning “Involving multiple loci” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-U-L-T-I-L-O-C-U-S, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does multilocus mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Involving multiple loci

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of multilocus

  • more multilocus comparative
  • most multilocus superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is multilocus?

Multilocus appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does multilocus come from?

From multi- + locus.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).