intolerator
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]intolerator (plural intolerators)
- (rare) One who does not tolerate something.
- 1986, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews: Human and experimental (series A)
- Comparison of tolerators with intolerators showed that although both groups rated the taste acceptability of vegetables similarly, more vegetables showed an association between tolerance and high taste acceptability.
- 1997, Botanical Journal of Scotland, page 304:
- Thus, we might expect the former (stress intolerators) to invade new habitats when the climate allows, and to be affected by changes in agricultural land use, whereas the latter (stress tolerators) may move little […]
- 1986, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews: Human and experimental (series A)