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eutrophicate, v. Ecol.|juːˈtrɒfɪkeɪt|
[Back-formation f. eutrophication n.]
a. trans. To render eutrophic.
b. intr. To undergo eutrophication; to become eutrophic.
1970N.Y. Times 15 Nov. iv. 12/2 This..causes lakes to eutrophicate, or age, before their time. 1970G. R. Taylor Doomsday Bk. ii. 33 What would happen to the billions of forest trees, many of which would stick out of the 100-foot-deep water or remain out of sight to wreck boats?.. Decaying, they would eutrophicate the water. 1987Proc. Indian Acad. Sci.: Animal Sci. XCVI. 141 The biotic life of Cooum river is severely affected by the excessive discharge of sewage effluents within the city limits which excessively eutrophicate the river water.
So euˈtrophicated ppl. a.
1967Schweiz. Zeitschr. f. Hydrologie XXIX. 76 To give an idea of the contents of nitrogen and phosphorus in Lake Norrviken in relation to other eutrophic and eutrophicated lakes the values shown in Table 3 have been collected. 1988Nature 26 May 317/2 It is not difficult to imagine ancient habitats saturated with microorganisms to a degree approaching that of the artificially eutrophicated environments of the present world. |