deletorious

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs

Adjective

deletorious (comparative more deletorious, superlative most deletorious)

1. (now proscribed) Alternative form of deleterious
   • 1587, Leuinus Lemnius, translated by Thomas Newton, An Herball to the Bible […] ‎^[1], London: Edmund Bollifant, page 207:

     And no maruell. For, the leaues of Boxe be deletorious, poiſonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noiſome, dangerous and peſtilent […]

   • 1782, William Raley, “Preface”, in A Treatise on the Management of Potatoes‎^[2], York, page iv:

     […] of which there are various kinds, all of them of a deletorious quality, ſome in a greater and others in a leſſer degree […]

   • 2006, Dr. Sidharth Arora, “Genes and Chromosomes”, in A Treatise on the Management of Potatoes‎^[3], New Delhi: Laxmi Publications Pvt Limited, →ISBN, page 119:

     Mutations are mostly deletorious and recessive and carried by heterozygous individuals. So most of them are of no practical value since mutants are unable to compete with the wild type.