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ABIOTROPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abiotrophy mean?
• ABIOTROPHY (noun)
The noun ABIOTROPHY has 1 sense:
1. a loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury
Familiarity information: ABIOTROPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("abiotrophy" is a kind of...):
degeneration; retrogression (passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form)
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