katabolic
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katabolic (comparative more katabolic, superlative most katabolic)
- Alternative form of catabolic
- 1907, William I. Thomas, Sex and Society[1]:
- Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic.
- 1912, Earl Barnes, Woman in Modern Society[2]:
- Compared with the female, the male animal is katabolic; he is active, impulsive, destructive, skilful, creative, intense, spasmodic, violent.