re-oxygenated

Updated: May 21, 2025

The ground, of course, on which the proof rested in this case was, that if the coralline were, as had often been thought, a zoophyte, the water would become corrupt, and poisonous to the life of the small animals in the same jar; and that its remaining fresh argued that the coralline had re-oxygenated it from time to time, and was therefore a vegetable. In 1850, Mr.

Charles Kingsley - Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore