Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ontogeny"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ontogenesis \On`to*gen"e*sis\, Ontogeny \On*tog"e*ny\, n. [See
{Ontology}, and {Genesis}.] (Biol.)
The history of the individual development of an organism; the
history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an
individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or
evolution of the tribe. Called also {henogenesis},
{henogeny}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ontogeny
n : 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" [syn: {growth}, {growing}, {maturation},
{development}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
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