Pronounced: su-PUHR-bee-us, adj
Notes: A new word for me – and a useful one!
Yesterday’s word
The word bioturbation is “the restructuring of sedimentary deposits (such as at the bottom of a lake or seabed) by moving organisms (such as worms or burrowing clams)”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
Our word is a combination of bio- (living) and turbation (a disturbance). Although our word is relatively recent, the root word turbation” goes back to the 1400s to 1600s, when it was used as a synonym for “perturbation” (a word I like) and “disturbance”.
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