Adjective: bioaccumulative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bioaccumulative |
| Superlative | most bioaccumulative |
Sample Sentences
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) received a flurry of attention around 2000, when studies of its effects on animal and human health showed that it was bioaccumulative (meaning that it accumulates in body tissue, especially in fat where it can linger for years), persistent, and toxic to mammals. [2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Island Press, →ISBN, page 284:]
Adjectives inflected like bioaccumulative
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
3. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
4. Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
5. English bio-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
7. Proto-Italic *ad
8. Proto-Italic *ad-
9. Latin ad-
10. Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
11. Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
12. Latin cumulus
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
15. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
17. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
18. Proto-Italic *-ājō
19. Proto-Italic *-āō
20. Latin -ō
21. Latin cumulō
22. Latin accumulō
23. Latin accumulātusbor.
24. Middle English accumylaten
25. English accumulate
26. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
27. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
28. Latin -īvus
29. Old French -ifbor.
30. Middle English -yf
31. English -ive
32. English accumulative
33. English bioaccumulative
34. From bio- + accumulative.