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in⋅flu⋅ent

  [in-floo-uhnt]
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–adjective
1. flowing in.
–noun
2. a tributary.
3. Ecology. a plant or animal that has an important effect on the biotic balance in a community.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L influent- (s. of influēns) inflowing. See in- 2 , fluent
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in·flu·ent   (ĭn'flōō-ənt, ĭn-flōō'-)   
adj.  Flowing in or into.
n.  

  1. An inflow, especially a tributary.

  2. Ecology A nondominant organism in a community that exerts an important modifying effect.


[Middle English, from Latin īnfluēns, īnfluent-, present participle of īnfluere, to flow in; see influence.]
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