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"ref": "2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-04, page 83",
"text": "It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.",
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
"word": "fejlbehæftet"
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
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"word": "defectuoso"
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
"word": "פגום"
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
"word": "easpach"
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
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"word": "عەیبدار"
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
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"sense": "having one or more defects",
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"word": "چوروك"
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"word": "дефе́ктный"
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"sense": "having only some forms",
"word": "diglok"
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"sense": "having only some forms",
"word": "defectiu"
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"sense": "having only some forms",
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"sense": "having only some forms",
"word": "mangelhaft"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having only some forms",
"word": "unvollständig"
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"sense": "having only some forms",
"word": "hiányos ragozású"
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"word": "hiányos"
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"word": "uireasach"
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"word": "difettivo"
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"word": "defectiv"
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"sense": "having only some forms",
"word": "дефекти́вный"
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"word": "uireasbhach"
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"ref": "2013, Gregor Geiger, Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea Scrolls",
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"ref": "2007 January 15, Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars”, in New York Times",
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