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Zymotic

//zaɪˈmɒtɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or causing fermentation. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Infectious, contagious, of diseases originally regarded as being caused by a process similar to fermentation. historical, not-comparable

    "[…] these […] accounts by no means bear out the zymotic doctrine of the Board of Health as to the cause of cholera; for where the zymotic influences from the sewers were the worst, […] the cholera was the least destructive."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or caused by infection wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to or causing fermentation wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζυμωτικός (zumōtikós, “causing fermentation”), from ζυμοῦν (zumoûn).

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