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histogeny

histogeny noun: histogenesis.

Noun (1)

histogeny (usually uncountable, plural histogenies)

  1. (dated, usually) Histogenesis.

Noun (2)

histogeny (uncountable)

  1. (historical, rare, theory of recapitulation) The study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.

Antonyms of histogeny

Forms of histogeny

pluralhistogenies

Origin of histogeny

From histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).

Learned borrowing from German Histogenie, itself from histo- + -genie; equivalent to histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).

Questions about histogeny

What does histogeny mean?
Histogeny means histogenesis.
What part of speech is histogeny?
Histogeny is a noun.
What is the plural of histogeny?
The plural of histogeny is histogenies.

Words near histogeny in the dictionary

  1. histogenic
  2. histogenically
  3. histogenies
  4. histogenomics
  5. histogens
  6. histogeny
  7. histogram
  8. histogramatic
  9. histogramatically
  10. histograming
  11. histogramme

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