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AUTOTOMY
autotomy
(noun) spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
autotomy (countable and uncountable, plural autotomies)
(chiefly zoology) The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism.
Hyponyms
• tail-shedding
Source: Wiktionary
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PROSODIC
(adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
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