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biogeneses

biogeneses is the plural of biogenesis.

Meaning of biogenesis

Noun

biogenesis (usually uncountable, plural biogeneses)

  1. (usually) The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
    • And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape; […] It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the...1870 September 17, [Thomas Henry Huxley], “The President’s Address”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, number 2238, London...
  2. (usually) Biosynthesis.

Questions about biogeneses

What is biogeneses the plural of?
Biogeneses is the plural of biogenesis.

Words near biogeneses in the dictionary

  1. biogenders
  2. biogenealogical
  3. biogeneration
  4. biogeneric
  5. biogenerics
  6. biogeneses
  7. biogenesis
  8. biogenesist
  9. biogenesists
  10. biogenetic
  11. biogenetical

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