Entry: saprogenic (adj.)
In context: "...his platform all but necessitates the second-tier option of transforming certain vast stretches of U.S. territory into uninhabitable and probably barbed-wired landfills and fly-shrouded dumps and saprogenic magenta-fogged toxic-disposal sights?"
Definition: Causing decay or putrefaction; also, produced by putrefaction.
Other:
SNOOT score: 2
Page: 402
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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