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biofoul

verb

Etymology

From bio- + foul.

  1. derived from *puH-✻ — “foul, rotten”
  2. inherited from *fūlaz✻ — “foul, rotten”
  3. inherited from *fūl✻
  4. inherited from fūl — “foul, dirty, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, stinking, guilty”
  5. inherited from ffoul
  6. prefixed as biofoul — “bio + foul”

Definitions

  1. To foul (typically a wetted surface) biologically.

  2. Biofoulants generally.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biofoul. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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