xenobiotic

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to xenobiosis.
  2. Adjective.  (biology) Relating to a substance foreign to the body or ecological system.
  3. Noun.  (biology) Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism.

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