oxygenicadj.
/ˌɒksᵻˈdʒɛnɪk/, U.S. /ˌɑksəˈdʒɛnɪk/ 1. Consisting of or containing oxygen; of or relating to oxygen.
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1850 A. H. Clough Corr. 3 Jan. (1957) I. 279 Consider..the long preparations of this strange marriage of coal and oxygenic air.
1885 Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 781/2 You'll breathe an air ignored By oxygenic gases.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 267/1 The secondary objects were..to determine..the oxygenic condition of the atmosphere, [etc.].
1932 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 36 2267 The original oxygenic matter dissolved in dilute acid without residue, suggesting that it was not Cr2O3.
1965 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 53 1215 Partial oxidation of very early rocks is consistent with such low oxygenic levels.
2. Biology. Of photosynthesis and photosynthetic organisms: generating oxygen.
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1975 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 123 860/2 In addition to the anoxygenic photosynthesis, O. limnetica is capable of oxygenic photosynthesis and can readily shift from one to the other.
1988 Nature 10 Mar. 111/3 These authors fed deuterated tyrosine to the oxygenic cyanobacterium, Synechocystis, under conditions in which the amino acid was not degraded and was incorporated into the protein of the organism.
1994 Nature 14 July 104/2 Anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria and the oxygenic cyanobacteria and algae share several similar physiological requirements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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