| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SUFFIX: | Of, relating to, or causing a specified kind of decomposition: cellulolytic. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Greek lutikos, able to loosen, from l ein, to loosen. See leu- in Appendix I.
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