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The Collaborative International Dictionary
biogenic

biogenic \bi`o*gen"ic\, a. [Gr. bi`os life + -gen + -ic.] produced by living organisms; as, biogenic methane.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biogenic

1904, with reference to Haeckel's recapitulation theory; 1913 as "produced by living organisms," from bio- + genic "produced by" (see genus).

Wiktionary
biogenic

a. 1 produced by living organisms, or by a biological process 2 essential for the maintenance of life

WordNet
biogenic
  1. adj. produced by living organisms or biological processes; "fermentation is a biogenic process"

  2. essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes; "sleep and food and water are among the biogenic needs of the organism"

Usage examples of "biogenic".

In an age of custom-engineered biogenic amines, nobody had to stay fragile.

The people always differ in their response to anything that impacts the biogenic amines.

Plus biogenic amines the body produced only under pathological conditions-the kinds that signaled accelerated nerve-cell death and permanent changes in the neural architecture.

It triggered the release of biogenic amines that prompted the body to create ten different neurotransmitters.

The virus initiated the manufacture and release of a biogenic arnine natural to the brain, which in turn caused the manufacture and release of another, which affected multiple receptor sites and caused further electrochemical reactions .

Apparently the molecule caused a very complex cascade effect, in which the release of certain biogenic amines caused the release of other chemicals, and so on.

While details will probably remain forever unknown, investigators now believe that a program designed to record and store biogenic information was deliberately released into the House plexus without adequate testing.

Inside the meteorite, biogenic Makers had carried her quiescent pattern.

Dominion apparently had erroneous intelligence that we were developing biogenic weapons on New Beijing.

The Dominion was supposed to have obtained erroneous intelligence that New Beijing was producing biogenic weapons.

Inside the meteorite, biogenic Makers had carried her quiescent pattern.