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  • adjective physics, of an isotope, etc. Produced by a natural terrestrial nuclear reaction

Etymologies

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nucleo- + -genic

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Examples

  • He remembered the choice he had made—to kill nucleogenic lifeforms just to get Equinox home.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • He remembered the choice he had made—to kill nucleogenic lifeforms just to get Equinox home.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • He had been killed by the attacking nucleogenic lifeforms, the ones the Equinox had used for fuel.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • He had been killed by the attacking nucleogenic lifeforms, the ones the Equinox had used for fuel.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • He had been killed by the attacking nucleogenic lifeforms, the ones the Equinox had used for fuel.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • He remembered the choice he had made—to kill nucleogenic lifeforms just to get Equinox home.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • Being a test subject infuriated him, but when he thought about those nucleogenic lifeforms and what he had done to them he became chagrined—how fitting at the moment of his death he had become a test subject for another species’ purpose.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • Being a test subject infuriated him, but when he thought about those nucleogenic lifeforms and what he had done to them he became chagrined—how fitting at the moment of his death he had become a test subject for another species’ purpose.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • Being a test subject infuriated him, but when he thought about those nucleogenic lifeforms and what he had done to them he became chagrined—how fitting at the moment of his death he had become a test subject for another species’ purpose.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • The presence of water affirmed that the Nacene hadn’t annihilated all nucleogenic particles from the atmosphere, though he suspected that time was close at hand.

    String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

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