Definition of Metagenetic

1. a. Of or pertaining to metagenesis.

Definition of Metagenetic

1. Adjective. of, relating to, or produced as a result of metagenesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metagenetic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Metagenetic

1. Of or pertaining to metagenesis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metagenetic

metafiles
metafilm
metafilms
metafunction
metafunctions
metagalactic
metagalaxies
metagalaxy
metagame
metagames
metagastric
metage
metagene
metageneses
metagenetic (current term)
metagenic
metagenome
metagenomes
metagenomic
metagenomically
metagenomics
metages
metagnathous
metagon
metagrabolised
metagrabolized
metagrammar
metagrammars
metagrammatism

Literary usage of Metagenetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals by Thomas Harrison Montgomery (1906)
"Of several individuals composing a metagenetic life cycle, that one which ... The beginning of a metagenetic cycle is the ovum, the individual immediately ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"... sexually at one point of their life-history, and at another point non-sexually by budding or fission, are said to have a metagenetic development. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Twins have accordingly been divided into '' paragenetic and " metagenetic." The first term is applied to the ordinarily occurring twins, ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1859)
"... that animals differing so much in form as to have constituted two distinct orders or classes, are really but two terms of a cycle of metagenetic ..."

5. The Deposits of the Useful Minerals & Rocks: Their Origin, Form, and Content by Franz Heinrich August Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1914)
"(c) metagenetic. IV. Concentration deposits : (a) Residual deposits. (6) Gravel deposits. It must be acknowledged that this classification of ..."

6. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1859)
"And, since one essential step in the series is the fertilized seed or egg, the Harveian axiom, ' omne virum ab ovo,' if metagenetic phases be ascribed to ..."

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