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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 the life cycle of trypanosomes outside the body of a host

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meta- +‎ cyclic

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