metabolically

English

Etymology

From metabolic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

metabolically (not comparable)

1. In terms of, or by means of, metabolism.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 66:

     Here [the new fire ant queen] raises a few tiny “minim” workers entirely from her body reserves of stored fat and metabolically cannibalized wing muscles.

Derived terms

• metabolically challenged