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Ontogenesis   Listen
noun
Ontogeny, Ontogenesis  n.  (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.
Synonyms: growth, growing, maturation, development.






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... field expedition to Baffin Land was to be undertaken solely for the purpose of bringing back living specimens of the five-spotted Arctic woodcock—Philohela quinquemaculata—in order to add to our onomatology and our glossary of onomatopoeia an ontogenesis of this important ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers



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