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xenogenesis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Xenogenesis  \Xen`o*gen"e*sis\,  n.  [Gr.  xe`nos  a  stranger  +  E. 
  genesis.]  (Biol.) 
  a  Same  as  {Heterogenesis}. 
  b  The  fancied  production  of  an  organism  of  one  kind  by  an 
  organism  of  another.  --Huxley. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  xenogenesis 
  n  :  the  alternation  of  two  or  more  different  forms  in  the  life 
  cycle  of  a  plant  or  animal  [syn:  {alternation  of 
  generations},  {heterogenesis}] 




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