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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to epigenetics.
  • adjective Of or relating to epigenesis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or produced by epigenesis.
  • Of, pertaining to, or produced by epigenesis.
  • In physical geography, a term applied to those rivers whose courses have been determined by the slope of a once overlying series of strata, now removed by erosion so as to disclose rock-structures of another arrangement; superposed; inherited.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective genetics, mineralogy Of, or relating to epigenesis.
  • adjective genetics Of, or relating to epigenetics.

Etymologies

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epi- +‎ genetic

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