Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supersaturated with oxygen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.), obsolete Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry, obsolete Combined with a relatively large amount of
oxygen ; said of the higheroxides .
Etymologies
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hyper- + oxygenated
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Inside, according to Odo, was a volume of hyperoxygenated and isoboromine-spiked brine sufficient to maintain the ancient symbiont on their passage through the wormhole.
Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996
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