azoic

(ə zōik, ā-)

adjective

  1. without any life: an azoic ecological zone
  2. designating or of the earliest part of the Archean Eon, when there was no life on earth

Origin: Gr azōos (< a-, without + zōē, life: see bio-) + -ic

See azoic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Of or relating to geologic periods that precede the appearance of life.

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