"mycoremediate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "myco- + remediate",
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      "form": "mycoremediates",
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    {
      "form": "mycoremediated",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, page 112",
          "text": "When choosing mushroom species to mycoremediate a toxic site, select species that naturally grow in that landscape.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Rogers, The Fungal Pharmacy, page 6",
          "text": "The findings of that work could help mycoremediate the oil sands tailings in the Fort McMurray area of northern Alberta.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Judith Karen Fenley, Oberon Zell, Death Rights and Rites: A Practical Guide to a Meaningful Death",
          "text": "Due to the fungi's ability to deactivate and mycoremediate toxins, the environment is not affected negatively.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To use fungi to degrade or sequester environmental contaminants."
      ],
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          "fungi",
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          "degrade",
          "degrade"
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          "sequester",
          "sequester"
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          "environmental",
          "environmental"
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        [
          "contaminant",
          "contaminant"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "etymology_text": "myco- + remediate",
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      "form": "mycoremediates",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mycoremediating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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          "ref": "2011, Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, page 112",
          "text": "When choosing mushroom species to mycoremediate a toxic site, select species that naturally grow in that landscape.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Rogers, The Fungal Pharmacy, page 6",
          "text": "The findings of that work could help mycoremediate the oil sands tailings in the Fort McMurray area of northern Alberta.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Judith Karen Fenley, Oberon Zell, Death Rights and Rites: A Practical Guide to a Meaningful Death",
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      ],
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          "degrade",
          "degrade"
        ],
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        ],
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