Deletorious

"Deletorious" in a Sentence (3 examples)

And no maruell. For, the leaues of Boxe be deletorious, poiſonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noiſome, dangerous and peſtilent[…]

[…]of which there are various kinds, all of them of a deletorious quality, ſome in a greater and others in a leſſer degree[…]

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.

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