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n. [ Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + &unr_; birth. ] The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Astro- + Gr. &unr_; birth. ] The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. bi`os life + &unr_;, &unr_;, birth. ] (Biol.) (a) A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- called also biogeny; -- opposed to abiogenesis. (b) Life development generally. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the production of a chemical compound by a living organism.
Syn. -- biosynthesis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the production of living organisms from other living organisms; same as biogenesis{ 1 }. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Biol.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny. ] (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kry`stallos crystal + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] The science which pertains to the production of crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Cell production or development; cytogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Electro- + Gr. &unr_; to produce. ] (Physiol.) A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'e`mbryon an embryo + root of &unr_; to produce: cf. F. embryogénie. ] (Biol.) The production and development of an embryo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Endogenesis. ] (Biol.) Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gr. &unr_;, fr. e'ygenh`s well born; e'y^ well + &unr_; race. ] Nobleness of birth. [ Obs. ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ge`nys the under jaw. ] (Zool.) See Gonys.

{ } n. (Physiol.) The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Heterogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "isto`s tissue + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.] (Biol.) Same as Histogenesis. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; the same + &unr_; race, kind. ] 1. Joint nature. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a membrane + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ideo- + -geny, from the same root as Gr. &unr_;, birth: cf. F. idéogénie. ] The science which treats of the origin of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ingenium. See Ingenious. ] Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity. [ Obs. ] [ Written also ingenie. ] Becon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Monogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anthropol.) The doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ form + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Biol.) History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Odonto- + root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born: cf: F. odontogénie. ] (Physiol.) Generation, or mode of development, of the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Ontology, and Genesis. ] (Biol.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.
Syn. -- growth, growing, maturation, development. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Organogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Osteo- + genesis, or the root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born: cf. F. ostéogénie. ] (Physiol.) The formation or growth of bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Same as Parthenogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) (a) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled. (b) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Photogen. ] See Photography. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. fy^lon race, tribe + E. genesis, or root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born. ] The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
Syn. -- evolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fy`sis nature + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Biol.) The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Phyto- + genesis, or root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born. ] The doctrine of the generation of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Poly- + genesis, or root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Biol.) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. progenie, F. progénie, fr. L. progenies, fr. progignere. See Progenitor. ] Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. “ Issued from the progeny of kings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a wonder, monster + the root of &unr_; to be born. ] (Med.) The formation of monsters. [ 1913 Webster ]