pathogenic

adj
/pæθəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/CA

Etymology

From patho- + -genic.

Definitions

  1. Able to cause (harmful) disease.

    • While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.
  2. Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.

    • Melogenic music represents the wide middle area between the extremes of logogenic and pathogenic music.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pathogenic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA