Anecic vs Anemic - What's the difference?
anecic | anemic |
(of earthworms) Building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 15, author=Anne Raver, title=The Dark Side of a Good Friend to the Soil, work=New York Times
, passage=βItβs an anecic species, a deep diver,β Mr. Burton said. }} Of or pertaining to anemia.
(by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.
* 1938 , Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and Century (volume 100, page 156)
As adjectives the difference between anecic and anemic
is that anecic is (of earthworms) building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed while anemic is of or pertaining to anemia.As a noun anemic is
an individual who has anemia.anecic
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anemic
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Alternative forms
* anaemic (UK) *Adjective
(en adjective)- My ordinarily even disposition was shattered, I thought, beyond repair β a condition that was not improved by my utter abhorrence of a diet of infant's food and anemic vegetables.