noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A biological response triggered by a lack of oxygen in which an organism takes in water and becomes turgid and immobile; possibly a form of cryptobiosis. uncountable

Etymology

From an- + oxy- + -biosis.

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