1.
[syn: anaerobic, anaerobiotic]
2. not aerobic;
- Example: "isometric exercises are anaerobic"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Anaerobic \An*a`["e]*rob"ic\, a. [Pref. an-not + a["e]robic.]
1. (Biol.) Not requiring air or oxygen for life; -- applied
especially to those microbes to which free oxygen is
unnecessary; ana["e]robiotic; -- opposed to a["e]robic.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Biol.) Relating to, or like, ana["e]robies;
ana["e]robiotic.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
anaerobic
adj 1: living or active in the absence of free oxygen;
"anaerobic bacteria" [syn: anaerobic, anaerobiotic]
[ant: aerobic, aerophilic, aerophilous]
2: not aerobic; "isometric exercises are anaerobic" [ant:
aerobic]