CAENOGENESIS
Dictionary entry overview: What does caenogenesis mean? • CAENOGENESIS (noun)
The noun CAENOGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
Familiarity information: CAENOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CAENOGENESIS (noun)
Meaning:
Introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
caenogenesis; cainogenesis; cenogenesis; kainogenesis; kenogenesis
Hypernyms ("caenogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) 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)
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