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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who subscribes to the philosophy of dysteleology.
2. 2
   An organism that frustrates a natural function, such as an insect that obtains honey by puncturing a nectary instead of by the floral opening.

Etymology

From dysteleology + -ist.

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