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EPIGENESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epigenesis mean?
• EPIGENESIS (noun)
The noun EPIGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
Familiarity information: EPIGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("epigenesis" is a kind of...):
metamorphism (change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances)
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