depauperation
(dɪˌpɔːpəˈreɪʃən)
[ad. med.L. dēpauperātiōn-em, n. of action f. dēpauperāre to impoverish: see depauperate.]
The process or condition of being depauperated; impoverishment.
| 1664 Baxter in Life & Times i. (1696) 106, I fell into another fit of Bleeding, which..after my former depauperation, did weaken me much. 1750 Carte Hist. Eng. II. 320 Getting the great seal put to blank charters, to the depauperation of the Crown. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 59 Flowers axillary, or in terminal spikes or racemes, in consequence of the depauperation of the upper leaves. Ibid. 233 A singular depauperation of the calyx..in which that organ is reduced sometimes to a mere obsolete ring. |