omnigenous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin omniqenus, from omnis (“all”) + genus (“kind”).
Adjective
[edit]omnigenous (not comparable)
- Consisting of all kinds.
- 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Celestial Railroad”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
- The labors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition without the trouble of even learning to read.
- (nuclear physics) Characterized by a uniformly symmetric distribution of nucleons within the nucleus.
References
[edit]- “omnigenous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.