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DISTANTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From or at a distance
Example:
dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness
Classified under:
Pertainym:
distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)
Context examples:
In any case, he will have the benevolence to consider this communication strictly private, and on no account whatever to be alluded to, however distantly, in the presence of Mr. Micawber.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
An analysis of 20 butterfly genomes found evidence that many butterfly species — including distantly related ones — show a surprisingly high amount of gene flow among them, said James Mallet of Harvard University, the senior author of the study.
(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)
Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).
(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)
To be sure I am distantly related to the Rochesters by the mother's side, or at least my husband was; he was a clergyman, incumbent of Hay—that little village yonder on the hill—and that church near the gates was his.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
By studying how these distantly related plants – which split from their common ancestor roughly 400 million years ago – respond to pathogen infections, the research team discovered a suite of microbe-responsive gene families that date back to early land plant evolution.
(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)
