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Definition of Biogeny
1. Noun. The production of living organisms from other living organisms.
Generic synonyms: Generation, Multiplication, Propagation
Derivative terms: Biogenetic, Biogenous
Definition of Biogeny
1. the development of life from preexisting life [n -NIES]
Medical Definition of Biogeny
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Biogeny
Literary usage of Biogeny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"Its Explanation by the Fundamental Law of biogeny.—Its Causal Relation to the
History of the ... Bearing of the Fundamental Law of biogeny on Psychology. ..."
2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1903)
"... Significance of the Fundamental Law of biogeny.—Influence u Shortened and
Vitiated Heredity. ..."
3. The Evolution of man v. 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"The Germ-vesicle.—The Germ-spot.—The Egg-membrane, or Chorion.—Application of
the Fundamental Principle of biogeny to the Egg.cell.—One-celled organisms. ..."
4. Dynamic Sociology by Lester Frank Ward (1883)
"biogeny* GENESIS OF ORGANIC FORM8—VITAL RELATIONS. Dependence of the properties
of matter upon their mode of molecular aggregation—Reciprocal increase of ..."
5. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"But as these " one- celled plants and animals" and "many kinds of protista,"
instead of descending from a "one-celled organism" as t':is law of biogeny ..."
6. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"Indeed, properly speaking, the entire history of evolution, or biogeny, including
both Ontogeny and Phylogeny, has as yet been almost exclusively a history ..."
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