a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.
n. (Biol.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. --
All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley. [1913 Webster]
adj.
a. (Biol.)
. (Phys. Geog.) A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
. (Phys. Geog.) A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. (Biol.) Pertaining to biogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. of or pertaining to cenogenesis. Opposite of
a. Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Arising or growing from without; exogenous. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Relating to gamogenesis. --
a.
a. [ See Genesis. ] Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development. [ 1913 Webster ]
This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a genetical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a scientist who specializes in genetics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. (Biol.) Relating to heterogenesis;
a. [ See Histogeny. ] (Biol.) Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to kenogenesis;
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to metagenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Monogenesis. ]
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to morphogenesis; concerned with the process of development of the normal features of an organism. [ PJC ]
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to ontogenesis;
a. (Physiol.) Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone;
a. (Zool.) Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to palingenesis:
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to pangenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis;
a. (Med.) Pathogenic. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to perigenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to phylogenesis, or the evolutionary history of a type of organism. --
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Polygenetic mountain range (Geol.),
a. (Physiol.) Relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis;
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to xenogenesis;