Xenogenesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The supposed production of offspring markedly different from either parent.
  • n. See alternation of generations.
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  • n. A foreign origin or source.
  • n. The production of an offspring that is unlike either of its parents.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as heterogenesis.
  • n. The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    organic phenomenon   
    Variant
    heterogenesis   
    Hyponym
    metagenesis    digenesis   
    Form
    xenogenetic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    heterogenesis    xenogeny   
     
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