CENOGENESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cenogenesis mean? 

• CENOGENESIS (noun)
  The noun CENOGENESIS 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: CENOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENOGENESIS (noun)

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 ("cenogenesis" 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)

Antonym:

palingenesis (emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species)

Derivation:

cenogenetic (of or relating to cenogenesis)