ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pangamic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Pangamic is an adjective meaning (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.

Meaning

(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.

More Meanings

  1. (eugenics, obsolete) Mating in an indiscriminate or random manner.

Example Sentences

Yes, there is, in the pangamic system of marriage.
[…] which means that in the case of pangamic mating the variability is reduced only about 11 per cent by selecting the entire ancestry.
The chances of conjugal union of persons of the same colour class, if the mating occurs at random or is pangamic, are greater than if they lived all together as one group in a densely populated town.
The attempt at conscious selection and segregation, especially in the presence of heterogeneous social strata, which intensified the risks of pangamic or indiscriminate mating, need not be condemned off-hand […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include punicic, pimelic, palmitic, gambogic, gambogenic, pyroantimonic.

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