MEIOSIS

The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine...

• Expressive understatement

• Understatement

• (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms

• The nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

• Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)