Evolutility

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Evolutility \Ev`o*lu*til"i*ty\
     ([e^]v`[-o]*l[-u]*t[i^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [See {Evolution}.]
     (Biol.)
     The faculty possessed by all substances capable of
     self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes
     of form, of volume, or of structure. --Syd. Soc. Lex.


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