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Meaning of dysgenesic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
  2. Tending to stunt to interfere with normal healthy development.
  3. Infertile when crossed with a similar hybrid but marginally fertile when crossed with one of the parent species.
  4. Involving reproduction by couples of different races, believed to lead to inferior offspring.
    broadly
  5. Tending to promote childlessness.

Examples

“Polymorphism under Dysgenesic Conditions. The variations manifested by bacteria are still more curious when the latter are placed under conditions unfavorable to their development.”
“At the same time social change without corresponding environmental changes in other spheres turns itself on to dysgenesic trends.”
“A more explicit articulation of Rielo's educational model involves an understanding of psychoethics that examines both the dysgenesic states that inhibit or perturb the capacity of human persons to act in accordance to the agency of the divine constitutive presence and the ontological remedy or ecstatic energy that can modify and correct the stated resistance within the dynamics of education in ecstasy.”
“But the degree of fertility of these crossings varies greatly in different species, for while some are perfectly fertile (eugenesic), the progeny of others will rarely breed except with a mate belonging to one of the original species (paragenesic), whiles in other cases the hybrids produced are wholly infertile among themselves, and scarcely fertile with either of the parent species (dysgenesic), or wholly infertile (agenesic).”
“Fecundation is […] dysgenesic when the hybrids, although mutually sterile, are fecund when crossed with an individual of one or the other of the parent races;”
“He would encourage by bonuses, eugenic and discourage by fines dysgenesic marriages among his employees.”
“Our whole urban and industrial life is avowedly dysgenesic.”
“But dysgenesic tendencies in the field of biological reproduction may increase the relative mass of mediocrity in comparison with the proportion of leadership produced.”
“But the polygenist distinction between eugenesic and dysgenesic race mixtures had in fact been made to order for such a situation.”
“Dysgenesic crosses, on the other hand—matings between races farthest apart on the scale of humanity—were either sterile or produced only a few sterile offspring.”
“While waiting for separate colleges to become coeducational, as they eventually will, their present dysgenesic tendency can probably be reduced by the gradual introduction of men teachers into the women's colleges.”
“[…] conditions is not wholly unfavourable or dysgenesic, and it is to be remarked that the decline in rural population has not been accompanied by any pro rata falling off in agricultural productivity.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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