Definition of Telegony

1. n. The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father.

Definition of Telegony

1. Noun. The belief that in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first ¹

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Definition of Telegony

1. the supposed influence of a previous sire on the offspring of later matings of the mother with other males [n -NIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telegony

telefrag
telefragged
telefragging
telefrags
telega
telegaming
telegas
telegenesis
telegenetics
telegenic
telegnosis
telegnostic
telegonic
telegonies
telegony (current term)
telegram
telegramlike
telegrammatic
telegramme
telegrammed
telegrammic
telegramming
telegrams
telegraph
telegraph code
telegraph codes
telegraph form
telegraph key
telegraph line

Literary usage of Telegony

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

1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"A telegony Superstition that Dies Hard—Experimental Evidence from Breeding and Deductions from Embryology—Supposed Phenomenon as Negligible in Eugenics as ..."

2. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"'XENIA' AND telegony ALTHOUGH it is certainly unnecessary in a theory of heredity to discuss all the possible kinds of phenomena which are with doubtful ..."

3. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"'XENIA' AND telegony ALTHOUGH it is certainly unnecessary in a theory of heredity to discuss all the possible kinds of phenomena which are with doubtful ..."

4. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"'XENIA' AND telegony ALTHOUGH it is certainly unnecessary in a theory of heredity to discuss all the possible kinds of phenomena which are with doubtful ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... 'telegony and Reversion' (1887) ; <A Critical Period in the Development of the Horse> (1889); 'Guide to Hybrids' (1900); (The Multiple Origin of Horses ..."

6. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"telegony in horses. The classic example among horses, and the one that is everywhere cited as proof of the theory, ..."

7. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"telegony in horses. The classic example among horses, and the one that is everywhere cited as proof of the theory, ..."

8. The Breeding of Animals by Frederick Blackmar Mumford (1917)
"Evidences of telegony, if it exists at all, ought to be easily collected in those ... telegony and mule hybrids. — In the horse- breeding districts of ..."

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