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DIGENESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does digenesis mean?
• DIGENESIS (noun)
The noun DIGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. alternation of sexual and asexual generations
Familiarity information: DIGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Alternation of sexual and asexual generations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
digenesis; metagenesis
Hypernyms ("digenesis" is a kind of...):
alternation of generations; heterogenesis; xenogenesis (the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal)
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