gengineern.
/ˌdʒɛn(d)ʒᵻˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛndʒəˈnɪ(ə)r/ Chiefly Science Fiction.
= genetic engineer n.
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1987 Economist 19 Dec. 76/3 Biotechnologists, as the earliest gengineers were called, had no idea that their work would prove so fruitful.
1993 J. Brosnan Opoponax Invasion (1994) 61 The Shinito gengineers theorized that the aliens..had sought to preserve their species by firing off perhaps millions of spheres carrying their DNA in all directions across the galaxy.
2005 Apex Sci. Fiction & Horror Digest Fall 12 She had the grey melty-wax skin gengineers always end up with from gene spillage.
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gengineerv.
/ˌdʒɛn(d)ʒᵻˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛndʒəˈnɪ(ə)r/ Chiefly Science Fiction.
transitive. To produce, develop, or alter through genetic engineering. Cf. genetic engineering n.
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1989 [see gengineered adj. at Derivatives].
1990 Future Hist. made Obsolete by Recent Changes in rec.arts.sf-lovers (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Nov. Were I part of an organization that had the capability to gengineer human beings, I really don't think I'd care to make the fact public.
1993 J. Brosnan Opoponax Invasion (1994) 85 All the various meats available in Purgatory were gengineered into existence.
2004 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Feb. 28 Any hi-tech low-life can ‘gengineer’ nature.
Derivatives
ˈgengineered adj.
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1989 Other Realms #24 in rec.mag.otherrealms (Usenet newsgroup) 26 Apr. This rehash..pits the cryogenic, matriarchal Grant family against..gengineered human mutant troglodytes.
2004 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 21 Mar. 9 Cley lives among the Supras, a ‘gengineered’ race whose people consider themselves superior in intelligence to Cley and her kind.
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