Definition of generation

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

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Anamorphosis :: Anamorphosis (n.) A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration..
Vegetal :: Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals..
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..
Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..
Pudendum :: Pudendum (n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva..
Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver..
Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Genesial :: Genesial (a.) Of or relating to generation.
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..
Copulate :: Copulate (v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
Encasement :: Encasement (n.) An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..
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..
Procreation :: Procreation (n.) The act of begetting; generation and production of young.
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve..
Geniture :: Geniture (n.) Generation; procreation; birth.
Calcification :: Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue..
Abiogenesis :: Abiogenesis (n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis..
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