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biogeny

biogeny noun: biogenesis.

Noun (1)

biogeny (uncountable)

  1. Biogenesis.

Noun (2)

biogeny (uncountable)

  1. (historical, rare, theory of recapitulation) The study of evolutionary history not only phylogenically, by also by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.

biogeny meaning in Tamil

biogeny in Tamil

உயிர்ப்பிறப்பியல்

Origin of biogeny

From bio- + -geny.

Learned borrowing from German Biogenie, itself from bio- + -genie; equivalent to bio- (“life”) + -geny (“origin”).

Questions about biogeny

What does biogeny mean?
Biogeny means biogenesis.
What is biogeny in Tamil?
Biogeny in Tamil is உயிர்ப்பிறப்பியல். See Biogeny meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is biogeny?
Biogeny is a noun.

Words near biogeny in the dictionary

  1. biogenist
  2. biogenists
  3. biogenotoxicology
  4. biogenous
  5. biogens
  6. biogeny
  7. biogeoarchaeological
  8. biogeocenology
  9. biogeocenosis
  10. biogeochemical
  11. biogeochemical cycle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biogeny (page history and authors); biogeny (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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