andromeda strain

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Definitions of andromeda strain words

noun andromeda strain a hypothetical microorganism, as might be developed from biological research, that if released would uncontrollably kill living things on earth 3
noun andromeda strain an infectious pathogen that mutates unpredictably into new forms and shows extreme resistance to destruction by conventional means. 1

before 1970

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1970-75; after such a pathogen in a novel of the same name (1969) by U.S. author Michael Crichton (born 1942)

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