zoogenichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoogenic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoogenic, adj.
Revised 2017

zoogenicadjective

  1. 1.
    1842–
    Of or relating to zoogeny. Now historical and rare.
    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. 1891
      We must look..to the zoögenic past of the species.
      C. Letourneau, Evol. Marriage & Family ii. 22
    4. 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
    5. 1935
      Environment and need dictated a transformation that..created a new species—the next elaboration of zoogenic development.
      Salt Lake Tribune 19 May 7/6
  2. 2.
    1866–
    Formed by or derived from animals or their parts. Cf. phytogenic adj.
    1. 1866
      Zoogenic deposits [German Zoogene Ablagerungen] are products of animal agency.
      P. H. Lawrence, translation of B. von Cotta, Rocks Classified 360
    2. 1895
      Most limestones are of organic and zoögenic origin, though some are phytogenic.
      E. H. Williams, Manual Lithography (ed. 2) 298
    3. 1908
      That petroleum is not exclusively zoogenic may now be considered as conclusively proved.
      Transactions Inst. Mining Engin. vol. 35 550
    4. 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
    5. 1999
      The mounds are zoogenic, initially created by termites and often colonized by a wide variety of burrowing animals.
      Diversity & Distributions vol. 5 62/1
    6. 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

zoogenic, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zoogenic, adj. was last modified in July 2023.