abiogeneticallyadv.
/ˌeɪbʌɪə(ʊ)dʒᵻˈnɛtᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌbaɪoʊdʒəˈnɛdək(ə)li/ Biology and Geology.
= abiogenically adv.
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abiogenetically1875
1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. III. 688/2 But living Bacteria, &c., have appeared in these contents subsequently to their being heated. Therefore, they have been formed abiogenetically.
1939 Sci. Monthly Nov. 475/2 It would have been well to have included a short exposition of the view-point..that viruses arose not abiogenetically but from living organisms by degradatory processes.
1985 Facies 12 253/1 The characteristic calcification patterns are mostly biologically rather than abiogenetically controlled.
2006 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 247 213/1 The isotope composition of the calcareous parts must mirror that of abiogenetically precipitated CaCO3 under the same conditions.
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