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from The Century Dictionary.
- Solvable by radicals: as, a metacyclic equation. See
equation . - Relating to a permutation of a number of elements in one cycle.
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- adjective biology Describing the
infective part of thelife cycle oftrypanosomes outside the body of ahost
Etymologies
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meta- + cyclic
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