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- French · borrowed fromautotomie
- German · borrowed fromAutotomie
- English todayautotomy
From auto- + -tomy, after German Autotomie or French autotomie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
autotomy
Today it means: The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism. Full definition →
German Autotomie ← French autotomie