Producing or generating carbon; capable of creating or producing carbonaceous materials.
From carbon plus -genous (producing or generating, from Greek genesis). A rare technical term from geology and chemistry.
Plants are fundamentally carbonigenous—they take CO2 from the air and convert it into solid carbon in the form of wood and leaves, which is why plants are nature's carbon capture machines.
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