KENOGENESIS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does kenogenesis mean? 

• KENOGENESIS (noun)
  The noun KENOGENESIS 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: KENOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENOGENESIS (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 ("kenogenesis" 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)