Definitions:

1. Describes anything that contributes to a decline in the health, fitness, or quality of a population's offspring, often through factors like weak or ineffective sexual selection. ADJECTIVE
   • The use of pesticides in farming has been linked to cacogenic effects on wildlife populations.
2. Describes something that produces or tends to produce inferior or undesirable offspring, often in a biological, genetic, or social context. ADJECTIVE
   • The theory claimed that certain environmental factors were cacogenic, leading to poor health in offspring.
3. Relating to or causing bad inheritance, defective development, or the transmission of undesirable traits. ADJECTIVE
   • Exposure to toxins can have cacogenic effects on reproductive health.

Synonyms:

• deformed
• dysgenic
• malformed

NearBy Words:

• cacogenics