AMPHIBOLIC - Definition

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Am`phibol"ic\ ([a^]m`f[i^]b[o^]l"[i^]c), a. 1. Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal. 2. Of or resembling the mineral amphibole.

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Biology Dictionary

	Definition:	A metabolic pathway that can both create and destroy metabolites (that is, it is both anabolic and catabolic). Such an intermediate pathway allows using the breakdown products from one pathway as the substrates, or ingredients, for a compound in another pathway.