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Abiogenous :: Abiogenous (a.) Produced by spontaneous generation.

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..

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..

Progeneration :: Progeneration (n.) The act of begetting; propagation.

Pudendum :: Pudendum (n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva..

Phytogeny :: Phytogeny (n.) The doctrine of the generation of plants.

Genital :: Genital (a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..

Propagation :: Propagation (n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants..

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..

Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

Aggeneration :: Aggeneration (n.) The act of producing in addition.

Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..

Copulate :: Copulate (v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

Purulency :: Purulency (n.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself..

Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation, so called..

Heterogenist :: Heterogenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis..

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