Zymogenic organism
| (Biol.) | a microörganism, 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. |
See also: Zymogenic
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.