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EUGENIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eugenic mean?
• EUGENIC (adjective)
The adjective EUGENIC has 1 sense:
1. pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced
Familiarity information: EUGENIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Antonym:
dysgenic (pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced)
Pertainym:
eugenics (the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating))
Derivation:
eugenics (the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating))
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