Definition of generation

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Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

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Degenerative :: Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.
Generation :: Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
Heirloom :: Heirloom (n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations..
Encasement :: Encasement (n.) An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist.
Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation, so called..
Uroglaucin :: Uroglaucin (n.) A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican..
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
Generation :: Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc..
Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..
Irregeneration :: Irregeneration (n.) An unregenerate state.
Genesial :: Genesial (a.) Of or relating to generation.
Necrobiosis :: Necrobiosis (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy..
Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Homogenesis :: Homogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis..
Traducianism :: Traducianism (n.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism..
Digenea :: Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents..
Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Histolytic :: Histolytic (a.) Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues..
Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..
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