Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The supposed production of offspring markedly different from either parent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The generation of offspring which pass through an entirely different life-cycle from that of the parents, and never exhibit the characters of the latter: a mode of biogenesis supposed by Milne-Edwards to occur, but not proved to have any existence in fact.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
heterogenesis . - noun The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A foreign origin or source.
- noun biology The production of an
offspring that isunlike either of itsparents .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal
Etymologies
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From xeno- + -genesis.
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cryptomnesiac commented on the word xenogenesis
"xen·o·gen·e·sis=
n.
1. The supposed production of offspring markedly different from either parent."
July 26, 2009