diauxie

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/daɪˈɔːksi/

noun

The state or quality of being diauxic.

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Meanings

noundiauxie (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe state or quality of being diauxic.

    Even in conventional batch cultivation, yeasts may occasionally enter a second phase of exponential growth called diauxie.

    1998, Graeme M. Walker, Yeast Physiology and Biotechnology, page 134
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