Definition of Biogeny

1. Noun. The production of living organisms from other living organisms.

Exact synonyms: Biogenesis
Generic synonyms: Generation, Multiplication, Propagation
Derivative terms: Biogenetic, Biogenous

Definition of Biogeny

1. the development of life from preexisting life [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Biogeny

1. A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; opposed to abiogenesis. Life development generally. Origin: Gr. Life +, birth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biogeny

biogenetic law
biogenetical
biogenetically
biogenetics
biogenic
biogenic amine neurotransmitters
biogenic amines
biogenic monoamines
biogenic polyamines
biogenies
biogenist
biogenists
biogenous
biogens
biogeny (current term)
biogeochemical
biogeochemically
biogeochemicals
biogeochemist
biogeochemistry
biogeochemists
biogeographer
biogeographers
biogeographic
biogeographical
biogeographical region
biogeographies
biogeography
biogeophysical

Literary usage of Biogeny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"Its Explanation by the Fundamental Law of biogeny.—Its Causal Relation to the History of the ... Bearing of the Fundamental Law of biogeny on Psychology. ..."

2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1903)
"... Significance of the Fundamental Law of biogeny.—Influence u Shortened and Vitiated Heredity. ..."

3. The Evolution of man v. 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"The Germ-vesicle.—The Germ-spot.—The Egg-membrane, or Chorion.—Application of the Fundamental Principle of biogeny to the Egg.cell.—One-celled organisms. ..."

4. Dynamic Sociology by Lester Frank Ward (1883)
"biogeny* GENESIS OF ORGANIC FORM8—VITAL RELATIONS. Dependence of the properties of matter upon their mode of molecular aggregation—Reciprocal increase of ..."

5. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"But as these " one- celled plants and animals" and "many kinds of protista," instead of descending from a "one-celled organism" as t':is law of biogeny ..."

6. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"Indeed, properly speaking, the entire history of evolution, or biogeny, including both Ontogeny and Phylogeny, has as yet been almost exclusively a history ..."

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