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Ontogeny (Noun)

Meaning

(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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural processes.

Synonyms

  • Ontogenesis
  • Maturation
  • Growing
  • Development
  • Growth

Hypernyms

  • Biological Process
  • Organic Process

Hyponyms

  • Teratogenesis
  • Gametogenesis
  • Inflorescence
  • Myelinization
  • Psychosexual Development
  • Flowering
  • Odontiasis
  • Virilisation
  • Amelogenesis
  • Efflorescence
  • Culture
  • Palingenesis
  • Infructescence
  • Germination
  • Juvenescence
  • Vegetation
  • Psychogenesis
  • Intussusception
  • Masculinization
  • Psychomotor Development
  • Cenogenesis
  • Masculinisation
  • Habit
  • Kenogenesis
  • Recapitulation
  • Dentition
  • Foliation
  • Cainogenesis
  • Sprouting
  • Teething
  • Morphogenesis
  • Suppression
  • Blossoming
  • Cohesion
  • Neurogenesis
  • Fructification
  • Apposition
  • Cytogeny
  • Angiogenesis
  • Caenogenesis
  • Life Cycle
  • Cultivation
  • Virilization
  • Florescence
  • Cytogenesis
  • Auxesis
  • Leafing
  • Myelinisation
  • Proliferation
  • Rooting

Related Words

  • Ontogenetic (adjective)
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