azoic
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Scientists long ago clung to the "azoic hypothesis" about the deep -- the presumption that nothing could possibly be alive so far from the photosynthetic world.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2010
He has explored portions of that continent as far down as the azoic rocks, and made many important discoveries as to the past life of the globe.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
It is a mistake to call this lake azoic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
Thus such of the first-formed strata as survived the repeated changes of level, would be practically "azoic;" like the Cambrian of our geologists.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
What though it be only an azoic extract of intense potato, dimly tinct with sargasso and macaroni—it has a pleasing warmth and bulk.
From Shandygaff by Christopher Morley
