Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fact or the doctrine of the origination of living beings and the formation of their parts or organs. Also
zoögony .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine of the formation of living beings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The doctrine of the formation of living beings.
Etymologies
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zoo- + -geny
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Examples
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But he still holds fast to the main thesis of transcendentalism -- the absolute unity of plan of all animals, vertebrate and invertebrate alike, [322] the gradual perfecting of organisation from monad to man, the repetition in the embryogeny of the higher animals of the "zoogeny" of the lower.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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