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cenogenesis vs ontogeny

ontogeny vs cenogenesis

cenogenesis and ontogeny both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cenogenesis Yes No No No
ontogeny Yes No No No
As nouns, ontogeny is a hypernym of cenogenesis; that is, ontogeny is a word with a broader meaning than cenogenesis:
  • cenogenesis: 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)
  • 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
Other hypernyms of cenogenesis include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.
cenogenesis (noun) ontogeny (noun)
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) (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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