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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
anabolism is a noun meaning "the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy". It carries one recorded sense.
the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anabolism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.