ontogenesis

Noun
Synonyms: growthgrowingmaturationdevelopmentontogeny

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. (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”Synonyms: growthgrowingmaturationdevelopmentontogeny
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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 sequence of events involved in the 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.

Syn: growth, growing, maturation, development. [1913 Webster]

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