Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Originating in or produced by animals.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to zoögeny, or the origination of animals.
  • In geology, noting rocks the constituents of which have been furnished by animals as distinguished from plants, as, for example, shell limestones, guano beds, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to zoögeny, animal production.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective originating, or produced by animals rather then plants

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

zoo- + -genic

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Examples

  • Substrate effects of zoogenic soil mounds on vegetation composition in the Worcester-Robertson valley, Cape Province.

    Nama Karoo 2008

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