Definition of Phytogeny

1. Noun. (biology) phytogenesis ¹

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Definition of Phytogeny

1. [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Phytogeny

1. The doctrine of the generation of plants. Origin: Phyto- + genesis, or root of Gr. To be born. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytogeny

phytoecdysteroid
phytoecdysteroids
phytoene
phytoene dehydrogenase
phytoene synthase
phytoequivalence
phytoerythrin
phytoerythrins
phytoestrogen
phytoestrogens
phytoextraction
phytoferritin
phytoflagellate
phytogenesis
phytogenies
phytogeny (current term)
phytogeographer
phytogeographers
phytogeographic
phytogeographical
phytogeographically
phytogeography
phytoglyphic
phytoglyphy
phytographical
phytography
phytohaemagglutinin
phytohaemagglutinins
phytohaemoagglutinin
phytohemagglutinin

Literary usage of Phytogeny

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

1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"phytogeny. (See also L.) 5000 General. TAXONOMY. [In the ensuing numbers, 5400-7900, a slip for each ordinal name,and a slip for each generic name, ..."

2. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"phytogeny represents the developmental history of individual plants, or, properly speaking, the idea of the plant. 1039. To the plant belong all the ..."

3. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1903)
"The Results of Comparative Philology a* Explaining the phytogeny of Specie*.—The Inter-relation* of the Main Stems and Branches of the ..."

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