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AUTOTOMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does autotomy mean?
• AUTOTOMY (noun)
The noun AUTOTOMY has 1 sense:
1. spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack
Familiarity information: AUTOTOMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("autotomy" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Derivation:
autotomic (of or relating to autotomy)
autotomize (cause a body part to undergo autotomy)
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