pangamic

Meanings

adjectivepangamic (not comparable)

not comparablechemistryOf or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.
Alfalfa tea was added to her fare and it helped further, then rice water because of its pangamic content — all these drinks just warm and never drunk hot, or taken cool if desired and without fail sipped slowly, not gulped down the throat.
1982, Marsh Morrison, Doctor Morrison's Amazing Healing Foods: With Miracle Health Promoter M
not comparableobsoleteeugenicsMating in an indiscriminate or random manner.
Yes, there is, in the pangamic system of marriage.
1897, Manie Sands, The opposites of the universe: or, Light and shade, good and bad, love and hate, glad and sad, page 58
3 more examples
[…] which means that in the case of pangamic mating the variability is reduced only about 11 per cent by selecting the entire ancestry.
1907, Eugene Davenport, Principles of breeding, page 536
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.
1908, James Fowler Tocher, Pigmentation Survey of School Children in Scotland, page 65
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 […]
1921, Radhakamal Mukerjee, Principles of Comparative Economics, volume 1, page 220

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