bioaccumulative
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Latin accumulātusbor. Middle English accumylaten English accumulate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English accumulative English bioaccumulative From bio- + accumulative.
- derived from -īvus Old French -ifbor
- derived from *gʷeyh₃-der✻
Definitions
That tends to accumulate in an organism when the organism's ability to remove it is…
That tends to accumulate in an organism when the organism's ability to remove it is insufficient.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bioaccumulative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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