azoic

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Scientists long ago clung to the "azoic hypothesis" about the deep -- the presumption that nothing could possibly be alive so far from the photosynthetic world.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2010

What though it be only an azoic extract of intense potato, dimly tinct with sargasso and macaroni—it has a pleasing warmth and bulk.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

Geologists have divided a few years of the worlds history into periods, reaching from the azoic rocks to the soil of our time.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Thus such of the first-formed strata as survived the repeated changes of level, would be practically "azoic;" like the Cambrian of our geologists.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

The tertiary formation is followed by an azoic formation of gneiss, mica slate, and phylada with large intrusions of granite.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Pepper, Charles M.