depauperate
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of depauperate
1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin dēpauperātus (past participle of dēpauperāre to make poor), equivalent to dē- de- + pauper ( āre ) to make poor ( pauper- poor ( see pauper) + -ātus -ate 1 )
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By framing urban areas as degraded, depauperate and deficient, we are undervaluing its inhabitants—wildlife and people alike.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2022
This once highly diverse river has become, like most others in Madagascar, depauperate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2011
The species was probably first named from poor or depauperate specimens.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Aug.—There is a depauperate narrow-leaved variety on the White Mountains.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Aug.–Oct.—Varies extremely in size and appearance, the culms erect and simple, or decumbent, geniculate and branched; in depauperate forms the spikelets only ¾´´, in the larger forms 1½´´ in length.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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