Definition of "oxygenless" [oxygenless]

• Lacking oxygen (adjective)
• Not assisted with oxygen (adjective)

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• "Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones."
• "Anaerobic metabolism, the internal life process of oxygenless bacteria, is not as efficient as aerobic metabolism."
• "Then had come the colonists, with their tractors and their rolls of stellene to make sealed dwellings and covered fields in that thin, almost oxygenless atmosphere."