- without any life: an azoic ecological zone
- [usuallyA-] designating or of the earliest part of the Archean Eon, when there was no life on earth
Origin of azoic
Classical Greek az?os ( from a-, without + z??, life: see bio-) + -icazoic
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azoic
adjective
Of or relating to geologic periods that precede the appearance of life.
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- Alternative form of azoic.
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