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Metabolic   Listen
adjective
Metabolic  adj.  
1.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
2.
(Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.






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"Metabolic" Quotes from Famous Books



... poisons and medicines into trees, it seems to me that a very firm stand ought to be taken by all responsible men who know anything about plant pathology. We know that a poison injected into a tree must either act injuriously right there upon the cells of the tree, or else must undergo metabolic changes. A tree cannot use anything that is thrown into it, poison or food or anything else, until it has undergone a metabolic change; you must have a distinct, definite chemical process taking place and we ought to state that most of the substances which are alleged to be of ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association



Words linked to "Metabolic" :   basal metabolic rate, metabolic process, zoological science, metabolous, zoology, destructive-metabolic



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