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单词 depauperated
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depauperatedadj.

Etymology: < depauperate v. + -ed suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈpauperated.
a. Rendered poor, impoverished; reduced or deteriorated in quality, vigour, capacity, etc.
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1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (1752) 95 The best blood itself..becomes weak and much depauperated.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii.261 A languid, depauperated and broken state of the juices.
1870 C. B. Clarke in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 48/2 The feeble, the sickly, and the depauperated should be weeded out in the struggle for existence.
1881 T. H. Huxley in Nature 28 Apr. 611/2 The fish is left in that lean and depauperated state.
b. Botany, etc. Stunted or degenerate from want of nutriment; starved; imperfectly developed from any cause that produces results analogous to innutrition.
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 275 Flowers hermaphrodite, surrounded by bracteæ, the outer of which are petaloid and herbaceous, the inner depauperated and coloured.
1888 Athenæum 1 Sept. 293/3 The rocks of this age present only a depauperated flora and fauna.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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