Definition of "oligotrophy" []

• The quality of having a low level of nutrients and minerals (noun)

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• "1948 Graduate assistant to David Frey, studies on Singletary Lake, North Carolina, extreme oligotrophy in the elongated "bay" lakes; later published a map of Pleistocene winds based on bay lake orientations and atmospheric pressure height calculations."