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xenobiotic.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
MEANING

A chemical substance foreign to an organism’s usual biochemistry or not normally produced by its metabolism.

Use it for

a body encountering an unfamiliar chemical; drugs or pollutants distinguished from ordinary metabolic products; foreign chemistry rather than an alien species name

Words that belong together

  • a xenobiotic compound
  • xenobiotic exposure

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The analysis identified a xenobiotic in the tissue sample.
The colony’s scientists tested xenobiotic exposure before using the imported material.

Nearby words

foreign biochemical substance

Related words

foreign chemical substanceexogenous chemical (overlapping)xenobiotic metabolism
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xenobiotic

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Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular xenobiotic; plural xenobiotics. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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