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{ } a. Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. géogonique. ] Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gy^ros circle, ring + go`nos fruit. ] (Paleon.) The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a chain + &unr_; generation. ] (Bot.) A chain of small cells in certain algæ, by which the plant is propagated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Iso- + Gr. gwni`a angle. ] Pertaining to, or noting, equal angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Characterized by isogonism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; offspring, generative parts. ] (Zool.) The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Oogonia E. Oogoniums [ NL., fr. Gr. w, 'o`n an egg + &unr_; offspring. ] (Bot.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Pycnogonida. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; thick crowded + &unr_; knee. ] (Zool.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The abdomen is rudimentary, and the triangular mouth is at the end of a tubular proboscis. Many of them live at great depths in the sea, and the largest of them measure two feet across the extended legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, sperm + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; offspring. ] (Physiol.) A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; spermo- + Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; offspring. ] (Bot.) A conceptacle of certain lichens, which contains spermatia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to theogony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Theogony. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]