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The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: removal, remotion
From auto- + -tomy, after German Autotomie or French autotomie.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Basque:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Belarusian:
аўтатамія
(awtatamija)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Bulgarian:
автотомия
(avtotomija)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Catalan:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Chinese Mandarin:
自割
(zigē)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Czech:
autotomie
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Danish:
autotomi
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Estonian:
autotoomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Finnish:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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French:
autotomie
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Galician:
autotomía
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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German:
Autotomie
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Greek:
αυτοτομία
(aftotomía)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Hungarian:
autotómia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Ido:
autotomio
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Indonesian:
autotomi
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Italian:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Japanese:
自切
(jisetsu)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Kazakh:
aвтотомия
(avtotomiä)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Latin:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Norwegian:
autotomi
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Polish:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Portuguese:
autotomia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Russian:
автотоми́я
(avtotomíja)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Russian:
аутотоми́я
(autotomíja)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Slovak:
autotómia
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Spanish:
autotomía
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Swedish:
autotomi
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Tajik:
aвтотомия
(avtotomiya)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Tamil:
தற்பிரிவு
(taṟpirivu)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Turkish:
ototomi
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Ukrainian:
автотомі́я
(avtotomíja)
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
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Uzbek:
avtotomiya
— invertebrate self-defense mechanism
