Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sexual reproduction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reproduction in which a male and a female take part, one furnishing spermatozoa and the other an ovum, so that the substance of the embryo is actually derived from both parents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of
epigenesis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun genetics The genetic origin of an
individual derived from material from bothparents (by sexual reproduction) - noun
descent from a commonancestor
Etymologies
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syn- + -genesis
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They are eaten by the natives, but the acidity is unpleasant, owing to its being mixed with a bitter; the flowers are two inches long: tubo 4 angulato, basi-coccinescenti, laminis viridibus interstibus carneis, coccineo lineatis praesenti transverse, antheris syngenesis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Growth, therefore, was, on this hypothesis, a process partly of simple evolution, and partly of what has been termed "syngenesis."
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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