Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That form of reproduction in which the product of each egg or each bud is a single organism like the parent; direct development without alternation of generations, as contrasted with metagenesis (which see).
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- noun pathology A
congenital defect characterized byunderdevelopment of parts or organs of the body.
Etymologies
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From hypo- + -genesis
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