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Defenition of the word ontogeny

    • Defenition of the word ontogeny

      • The entire sequence of events involved in the development of an individual organism.
      • The description of the origin and the development of an organism from the fertilized egg to its mature form and death.
      • 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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
      • (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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
      • (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

    Synonyms for the word ontogeny

      • development
      • growing
      • growth
      • maturation
      • ontogenesis

    Meronymys for the word ontogeny

      • gastrulation

    Hyponyms for the word ontogeny

      • amelogenesis
      • angiogenesis
      • anthesis
      • apposition
      • auxesis
      • blossoming
      • caenogenesis
      • cainogenesis
      • cenogenesis
      • cohesion
      • cultivation
      • culture
      • cytogenesis
      • cytogeny
      • dentition
      • efflorescence
      • florescence
      • flowering
      • foliation
      • fructification
      • gametogenesis
      • germination
      • habit
      • inflorescence
      • infructescence
      • intussusception
      • juvenescence
      • kainogenesis
      • kenogenesis
      • leafing
      • life cycle
      • masculinisation
      • masculinization
      • morphogenesis
      • myelinisation
      • myelinization
      • neurogenesis
      • odontiasis
      • palingenesis
      • proliferation
      • psychogenesis
      • psychomotor development
      • psychosexual development
      • recapitulation
      • rooting
      • sprouting
      • suppression
      • teething
      • teratogenesis
      • vegetation
      • virilisation
      • virilization

    Hypernyms for the word ontogeny

      • biological process
      • organic process

    Antonyms for the word ontogeny

      • nondevelopment

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