deletorious
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]deletorious (comparative more deletorious, superlative most deletorious)
- (now proscribed) Alternative form of deleterious
- 1587, Leuinus Lemnius, translated by Thomas Newton, An Herball to the Bible […] [1], London: Edmund Bollifant, page 207:
- And no maruell. For, the leaues of Boxe be deletorious, poiſonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noiſome, dangerous and peſtilent […]
- 1782, William Raley, “Preface”, in A Treatise on the Management of Potatoes[2], York, page iv:
- […] of which there are various kinds, all of them of a deletorious quality, ſome in a greater and others in a leſſer degree […]
- 2006, Dr. Sidharth Arora, “Genes and Chromosomes”, in A Treatise on the Management of Potatoes[3], New Delhi: Laxmi Publications Pvt Limited, →ISBN, page 119:
- Mutations are mostly deletorious and recessive and carried by heterozygous individuals. So most of them are of no practical value since mutants are unable to compete with the wild type.