Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 22, 2011
xenogenic \zen-uh-JEN-ik\, adjective:
1. To be completely different from either parent, or from the source of an object's creation.
2. In biology, originating outside the organism or from a foreign substance introduced into the organism.
I wonder if being both a horse's rear end and a socialist-Marxist makes the B.O. xenogenic!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Dr. Forssmann also believes that it was wrong to put a pig's liver in a dying woman in Buenos Aires - presumably on the ground that hetero- grafts or xenogenic (i.e., interspecific) transplants are "unnatural."-- Stephen E. Lammers, Allen Verhey, On moral medicine: theological perspectives in medical ethics
I can picture it because he is still the furnace, the heat source in any room: booming, proud, imperious, xenogenic.-- Clark Blaise, Bharati Mukherjee, Days and nights in Calcutta
Xenogenic combines the Greek roots xeno-, "strange, or other," and -genic, "produced or caused by."
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