deletorious

English

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 […] ‎, 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, 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, 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.
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