zymogenic

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CIDE DICTIONARY

zymogenic, a.

Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene. [1913 Webster]

Zymogenic organism (Biol.), a microörganism, such as the yeast plant of the Bacterium lactis, which sets up certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical products are formed; -- distinguished from a pathogenic organism. Cf. Micrococcus.