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EPIGENESIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does epigenesis mean?

• EPIGENESIS (noun)
The noun EPIGENESIS has 1 sense:

1. a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed

Familiarity information: EPIGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EPIGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("epigenesis" is a kind of...):

metamorphism (change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat of introduction of new chemical substances)

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