HyperDic: caenogenesis

English > 1 sense of the word caenogenesis:
NOUNprocesscaenogenesis, cenogenesis, kenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesisintroduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
English > caenogenesis: 1 sense > noun 1, process
Meaningintroduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution).
Synonymscenogenesis, kenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
Broadergrowth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
Oppositepalingenesis, recapitulationemergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Spanishcaenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cenogénesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis
Catalancaenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis

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