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anectic

anectic is the alternative form of anecic.

Meaning of anecic

Adjective

anecic (not comparable)

  1. Building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed.
    • “... (1) anecic species, which feed on fresh litter from the soil surface and pull it deep into the soil in permanent burrows...”2013 February 3, I.M. Lubbers et al., “Greenhouse gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms”, in Nature Climate Change

Questions about anectic

What is anectic the alternative form of?
Anectic is the alternative form of anecic.

Words near anectic in the dictionary

  1. anechoic
  2. anechoically
  3. anecic
  4. anecophyte
  5. anecophytes
  6. anectic
  7. anecumene
  8. Aneel
  9. Aneesh
  10. Aneg
  11. Anegada

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anectic (page history and authors); anecic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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