Metabolically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In terms of, or by means of, metabolism. not-comparable

    "Here [the new fire ant queen] raises a few tiny “minim” workers entirely from her body reserves of stored fat and metabolically cannibalized wing muscles."

Adverb
  1. 1
    involving metabolism wordnet

Example

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"Nine out of 10 American adults are metabolically unhealthy."

Etymology

From metabolic + -ally.

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metabolically challenged

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