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CACOGENESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cacogenesis mean?
• CACOGENESIS (noun)
The noun CACOGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile
Familiarity information: CACOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cacogenesis" is a kind of...):
infertility; sterility (the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate)
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