deleterious
IPA: dɛɫʌtˈɪriʌs
adjective
- Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.
- (genetics) Having lower fitness.
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Examples of "deleterious" in Sentences
- Edit warring is deleterious to the mission.
- Not so the deleterious effect on production rates.
- I mean, the feature itself isn't unwise or deleterious.
- In essence, sex compartmentalises the deleterious mutations.
- The effects of traumatic insemination are deleterious to the female.
- This phenomenon masks the deleterious effect of the insertion mutation.
- Edit warring is deleterious to the mission and orderliness of Wikipedia.
- Carbonates are deleterious as they readily stick to the boiler apparatus.
- A method of decreasing the deleterious effects of cavitation on a ship 1.
- Vitamin supplements counter the deleterious effects of homocysteine on collagen.
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