of a lake or pond derived from a bog and characterized by brown, humic matter, high acidity, and poorly developed fauna and flora
dystrophic in American English
(dɪˈstrɑfɪk, -ˈstroufɪk)
adjective
1. Medicine
pertaining to or caused by dystrophy
2. Ecology(of a lake)
having too low an accumulation of dissolved nutrients to support abundant plant life; having highly acid, brownish waters filled with undecayed plant materials, and eventually developing into a peat bog or marsh
Word origin
[1890–95; dys- + trophic]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, cholesterol, historicism, neoclassicism, phonemedys- is a combining form meaning “ill,” “bad,” used in the formation of compound words.Other words that use the affix dys- include: dysarthria, dysautonomia, dysphemism, dysprosium, dysrhythmia