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Webster 1913 Edition


Oxygenous

Ox-yg′e-nous

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Adj.
Oxygenic.

Webster 1828 Edition


Oxygenous

OXYG'ENOUS

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Adj.
Pertaining to oxygen, or obtained from it.

Definition 2024


oxygenous

oxygenous

English

Adjective

oxygenous (comparative more oxygenous, superlative most oxygenous)

  1. (obsolete) oxygenic
    • 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary (volume 2, page 279)
      The colour we now know to be owing to the influence of the oxygenous gas, and the darker colour of venal blood to carbone.