Zymogenic /(?)/

Zym·o·gen·ic

Zymogenic

a.
  1. Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene. (Biol.)

Phrases & Compounds
Zymogenic organism
a microorganism, 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.