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ontogeny


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ontogenesis  \On`to*gen"e*sis\,  Ontogeny  \On*tog"e*ny\,  n.  [See 
  {Ontology},  and  {Genesis}.]  (Biol.) 
  The  history  of  the  individual  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ontogeny 
  n  :  the  process  of  an  individual  organism  growing  organically;  a 
  purely  biological  unfolding  of  events  involved  in  an 
  organism  changing  gradually  from  a  simple  to  a  more 
  complex  level;  "he  proposed  an  indicator  of  osseous 
  development  in  children"  [syn:  {growth},  {growing},  {maturation}, 
  {development},  {ontogenesis}]  [ant:  {nondevelopment}] 




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