Oxygenous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    oxygenic obsolete

    "The colour we now know to be owing to the influence of the oxygenous gas, and the darker colour of venal blood to carbone."

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aerialaerodynamicaeryairyetherealfuming

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"The colour we now know to be owing to the influence of the oxygenous gas, and the darker colour of venal blood to carbone."

Etymology

From oxygen + -ous.

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