dysgenesic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
adj
Infertile when crossed with a similar hybrid but marginally fertile when crossed with one of the parent species.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Polymorphism under Dysgenesic Conditions. The variations manifested by bacteria are still more curious when the latter are placed under conditions unfavorable to their development."
- "At the same time social change without corresponding environmental changes in other spheres turns itself on to dysgenesic trends."
- "A more explicit articulation of Rielo's educational model involves an understanding of psychoethics that examines both the dysgenesic states that inhibit or perturb the capacity of human persons to act in accordance to the agency of the divine constitutive presence and the ontological remedy or ecstatic energy that can modify and correct the stated resistance within the dynamics of education in ecstasy."
- "But the degree of fertility of these crossings varies greatly in different species, for while some are perfectly fertile (eugenesic), the progeny of others will rarely breed except with a mate belonging to one of the original species (paragenesic), whiles in other cases the hybrids produced are wholly infertile among themselves, and scarcely fertile with either of the parent species (dysgenesic), or wholly infertile (agenesic)."
- "Fecundation is […] dysgenesic when the hybrids, although mutually sterile, are fecund when crossed with an individual of one or the other of the parent races;"
- "He would encourage by bonuses, eugenic and discourage by fines dysgenesic marriages among his employees."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dews-? Proto-Indo-European *dus- Proto-Hellenic *dus- Ancient Greek δῠσ- (dŭs-)der. New Latin dys-der. English dys- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)der. Latinbor. English -genesis English dysgenesis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English dysgenesic From dysgenesis + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more dysgenesic (comparative)
most dysgenesic (superlative)