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Etymology

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From Latin omniqenus, from omnis (all) + genus (kind).

Adjective

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omnigenous (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of all kinds.
    • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Celestial Railroad”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
      The labors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition without the trouble of even learning to read.
  2. (nuclear physics) Characterized by a uniformly symmetric distribution of nucleons within the nucleus.

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