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1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible:
The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:
Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..
(uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
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