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pangamic

pangamic adjective: of or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.

Adjective

pangamic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.
    • Alfalfa tea was added to her fare and it helped further, then rice water because of its pangamic content — all these drinks just warm and never drunk hot, or taken cool if desired and without fail sipped slowly, not gulped down the throat.1982, Marsh Morrison, Doctor Morrison's Amazing Healing Foods: With Miracle Health Promoter M
  2. (obsolete, eugenics) Mating in an indiscriminate or random manner.
    • Yes, there is, in the pangamic system of marriage.1897, Manie Sands, The opposites of the universe: or, Light and shade, good and bad, love and hate, glad and sad, page 58
    • […] which means that in the case of pangamic mating the variability is reduced only about 11 per cent by selecting the entire ancestry.1907, Eugene Davenport, Principles of breeding, page 536

Origin of pangamic

From pan- + gamic.

Phrases with pangamic

Questions about pangamic

What does pangamic mean?
Pangamic means of or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.
What part of speech is pangamic?
Pangamic is an adjective.

Words near pangamic in the dictionary

  1. Pangalalan
  2. Pangalangan
  3. Pangallo
  4. Pangallos
  5. Pangambam
  6. pangamic
  7. pangamic acid
  8. Pangamihan
  9. pangamy
  10. Pangan
  11. Pangan-an

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