xenographic

English

Etymology

xenography +‎ -ic

Adjective

xenographic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to xenography (surgical transplantation between species).

   The preliminary conclusion was that the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans.

2. Of or pertaining to xenography (writing in a language one has not learned).
   • 1999, Roland Marti, Abecedaria — a Key to the Original Slavic Alphabet: The Contribution of the Abecedarium Sinaiticum Glagoliticum:

     Xenographic abecedaria are written by ‘non-native writers’ and they are conserved in manuscripts using a script different from that of the abecedarium.