metabolically

English

Etymology

metabolic +‎ -ally

Adverb

metabolically (not comparable)

  1. In terms of, or by means of, metabolism.
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
      Here [the new fire ant queen] raises a few tiny “minim” workers entirely from her body reserves of stored fat and metabolically cannibalized wing muscles.

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