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azoic definition

azo·ic (ə zō′ik, 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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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