or  hy*pos*mot*ic  adj :  HYPOTONIC 2 <salt is subsequently reabsorbed, leaving the vacuolar fluid to the protoplasm -Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen & Carolyn R. Schrauger>  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  hyposmotic 
 
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