alloplastic

adjective

al·​lo·​plas·​tic

: molding or molded by external factors (as environment)

man's evolution … is through alloplastic experiments with objects outside his own body

—Weston LaBarre

—contrasted with autoplastic

alloplastically

-ə̇k(ə)lē

adverb

Word History

Etymology

all- + -plastic

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

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