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Wordplay: Isograms

An isogram is a word in which no letter is repeated. These three words are each one letter short of the record-holders, "dermatoglyphics" and "uncopyrightable".

Brachypolemius Wittmer, 1950 (beetle)
Macroxyletinus (beetle)
Schizotrypanum (subgenus of trypanosome)

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