Of or relating to zoogeny. Now historical and rare.
1842
Whether these zoogenic elements can become combined and associated with one another so as to produce a variation in animality.
Med. Times & Gazette 17 December 182/3
1848
The animals,..whose embryogenic career is of different lengths, constitute a number of separate series,..according as their differences in zoogenic progress begin more early and are wider in character.
American Journal of Science & Arts 2nd Series vol. 5 429
1891
We must look..to the zoögenic past of the species.
C. Letourneau, Evol. Marriage & Family ii. 22
1894
Most of the forms of concourse, intercourse and mutual aid have their beginnings in animal society. By means of them animal life is developed into its various types. This stage, therefore, may be characterized as zoogenic, and the study of it, as exhibited in animal communities, is zoogenic sociology.
F. H. Giddings, Theory Sociology iii. 40
1935
Environment and need dictated a transformation that..created a new species—the next elaboration of zoogenic development.
Formed by or derived from animals or their parts. Cf. phytogenicadj.
1866
Zoogenic deposits [German Zoogene Ablagerungen] are products of animal agency.
P. H. Lawrence, translation of B. von Cotta, Rocks Classified 360
1895
Most limestones are of organic and zoögenic origin, though some are phytogenic.
E. H. Williams, Manual Lithography (ed. 2) 298
1908
That petroleum is not exclusively zoogenic may now be considered as conclusively proved.
Transactions Inst. Mining Engin.vol. 35 550
1930
Poisons elaborated or produced by animals, or zoogenic poisons, are commonly much more toxic for living plant protoplasm than for living animal tissues.
Science 21 March 306/1
1999
The mounds are zoogenic, initially created by termites and often colonized by a wide variety of burrowing animals.
Diversity & Distributionsvol. 5 62/1
2010
The zoogenic limestone..was used by the former population for making iron.
B. Chavane & C. Feller in E. R. Landa & C. Feller, Soil & Culture xx. 332
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.
Vowels
ifleece, happy
ɪkit
ɛdress
ætrap, bath
ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
ɑrstart
ɔcloth, thought
ɔrnorth, force
ʊfoot
ugoose
əstrut, comma
ərnurse, letter
ɪ(ə)rnear
ɛ(ə)rsquare
ʊ(ə)rcure
eɪface
aɪpride
aʊmouth
oʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ɑ̃gratin
æ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.
Consonants
b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values
zoogenic typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zoogenic is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zoogenic, adj., 1860–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.