資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Zymogenic \Zym`o*gen"ic\, a. (Biol.)
   (a) Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene.
   (b) Capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment.

   {Zymogenic organism} (Biol.), a micro["o]rganism, such as the
      yeast plant of the {Bacterium lactis}, which sets up
      certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical
      products are formed; -- distinguished from a pathogenic
      organism. Cf. {Micrococcus}.