CACOGENICS

dysgenics, cacogenics

(noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

cacogenics (uncountable)

(medicine) The opposite of eugenics; the aggregation of factors, through adverse sexual selection and reproduction, tending to promote bad genetic characteristics in people.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

9 May 2025

RIGHT

(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”


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Coffee Trivia

Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.

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