metabolically

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  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.

词源

Etymology tree
English metabolic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English metabolically
From metabolic + -ally.
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