Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deficiency of nutrition.
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- noun geography the quality of having a low level of
nutrients andminerals
Etymologies
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oligo- (“few”) + -trophy (“nutrition”)
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1948 Graduate assistant to David Frey, studies on Singletary Lake, North Carolina, extreme oligotrophy in the elongated "bay" lakes; later published a map of Pleistocene winds based on bay lake orientations and atmospheric pressure height calculations.
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