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Definition of Photogenes
1. photogene [n] - See also: photogene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Photogenes
Literary usage of Photogenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"The solar oil, which is being substituted as an illuminant for the photogenes
and the fatty oils of the pasb, is a •clear oil, colourless and slightly ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"B*ll. US Bureau of Fisheries for 1904, vol. 24, pp. 229-256, text fig. 1-6.— JOUBIN,
L. Note sur les organes photogenes de 1'reil de ..."
3. Works by Herbert Spencer (1896)
"In youth the visual apparatus is so quickly restored to its state of integrity,
that many of these photogenes, as they are called, cannot be perceived. ..."
4. Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices and by Thomas Campbell (1844)
"photogenes AND APELLES. WHEN poets wrote, and painters drew, As Nature pointed
out the view ; Ere Gothic forms were known in Greece To spoil the ..."
5. The British Journal of Photographyby Liverpool Photographic Society by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"I have prepared two photogenes ' We have daring the past year dis- with collodion—
one with iodide, the covered a procese of printing with other with ..."
6. Works by Herbert Spencer, Edmund Spenser, R Morris (1902)
"... but that it varies in rate, is furnished by what are known as photogenes.
During early life, while the blood is rich and the circulation good, ..."
7. The Principles of Biology by Herbert Spencer (1896)
"In youth, the visual apparatus is so quickly restored to its state of integrity,
that many of these photogenes, as they are called, cannot be perceived. ..."
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