Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Originating in or produced by animals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- Of or pertaining to zoögeny, or the origination of animals.
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 , orproduced byanimals rather thenplants
Etymologies
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zoo- + -genic
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Examples
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Substrate effects of zoogenic soil mounds on vegetation composition in the Worcester-Robertson valley, Cape Province.
Nama Karoo 2008
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