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artificial

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Main Entry: ar·ti·fi·cial
Pronunciation: secondarystressärt-schwa-primarystressfish-schwal
Function: adjective
1 : humanly contrived often on a natural model <an artificial limb>
2 : based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships <an artificial key for identification of a group of organisms>
- ar·ti·fi·cial·ly /-primarystressfish-(schwa-)lemacron/ adverb