Xenobiotic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Foreign to the body or to living organisms. Used of chemical compounds.
  • n. A xenobiotic chemical, such as a pesticide.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to xenobiosis.
  • adj. Relating to a substance foreign to the body or ecological system.
  • n. Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism
    • Word Usage
    "Bacteria respond to a xenobiotic by recruiting exogenous genes to establish a pathway to degrade the xenobiotic, which is necessary for their adaptation and survival."
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