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

It is a mistake to call this lake azoic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

So here are the three great elemental characters, all together—the primal sea and sky and land—to act the azoic prologue.

From Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 by Wood, William Charles Henry

We may infer, then, that the strata deposited next after the almost "azoic" strata, would contain the remains of invertebrata, allied to those found near the shores of Australia and South America.

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

In the azoic period of our earth there was no life on it.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Walker, Aaron