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CAENOGENESIS
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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 (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
Familiarity information: CAENOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Introduction 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)
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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