Definition of generation

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Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals..

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Oviparity :: Oviparity (n.) Generation by means of ova. See Generation.
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
Irregeneration :: Irregeneration (n.) An unregenerate state.
Genital :: Genital (a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs..
Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another..
Unregeneration :: Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.
Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.
Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..
Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob..
Synergist :: Synergism (n.) The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man..
Copulation :: Copulation (n.) The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.
Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..
Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..
Vermination :: Vermination (n.) The generation or breeding of vermin.
Parenchymous :: Parenchymous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration..
Syngnathi :: Syngenesis (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.
Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc..
Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..
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