Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
produced by living organisms or biological processes;
- Example: "fermentation is a biogenic process"2.
essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes;
- Example: "sleep and food and water are among the biogenic needs of the organism"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
biogenic \bi`o*gen"ic\, a. [Gr. bi`os life + -gen + -ic.]
produced by living organisms; as, biogenic methane.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
biogenic
adj 1: produced by living organisms or biological processes;
"fermentation is a biogenic process"
2: essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes;
"sleep and food and water are among the biogenic needs of the
organism"