Zoogenic

Wednesday 15^th June 2016

Zoogenic \ [zoh-uh-jen-ik] 

Adjective

1. produced or caused by animals.

2. pertaining or related to animal development or evolution.

Quote

Thousands of years, perhaps millions of years, before man was born, the

foundations of his empire were laid in the zoögenic associations of the humblest

forms of conscious life.

...Franklin Henry Giddings, The Principles of Sociology, 1896

Origin

Zoogenic entered English in the late 1800's. The combining form zoo- comes from the Greek zôion meaning "animal."

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