2. Adjective. (context: of mountain climbing) not assisted with oxygen ¹
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Definition of Oxygenless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxygenless
Literary usage of Oxygenless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1894)
"Beginning their work in an atmosphere that was oxygenless, they have gone on with
their good services until it is now fit for the breathing of healthy human ..."
2. Animal Communities in Temperate America: As Illustrated in the Chicago by Victor Ernest Shelford (1913)
"... blood and are supposed to be able to use oxygen when it is present in the
minutest quantities. In the open oxygenless water there are phantom larvae ..."
3. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"Red sulphur-bacteria can obtain oxygen by COj-assimilation, and hence remain
living for weeks if exposed to light in closed oxygenless tubes containing a ..."
4. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"The carbon-dioxide produced in this oxygenless respiration arises from the same
materials as are consumed in ordinary respiration ; still it cannot arise ..."
5. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"... not ignite within the oxygenless crater even under the intense heat there
present, but which exploded with fatal force upon mixing with the oxygen of ..."
6. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"Arhar, Moong or Chenna dal was alike useless. Wounds or scratches took an abnormal
time to heal, owing to the oxygenless state of the air. ..."
7. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"It was a gas which would not ignite within the oxygenless crater even under the
intense heat there present, but which exploded with fatal force upon mixing ..."
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