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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting a stage or condition in which evolutionary progress is retarded by inbreeding and close selection which eliminates the normal individual diversity of the natural species, as in carefully selected domesticated varieties. Compare catalytic, 2, dialytic, 4, and prostholytic.

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