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Verb: bioaccumulate
  1. Accumulate in organic tissue, or pass up the food chain due to the inability of organisms to process a substance
    "mercury is known to bioaccumulate"

Derived forms: bioaccumulated, bioaccumulates, bioaccumulating

Encyclopedia: Bioaccumulate

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