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Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.

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

Posterity :: Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.

Unregeneration :: Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are the

Sexual :: Sexual (a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation..

Life :: Life (n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms..

Digestion :: Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.

Seed :: Seed (n.) Race; generation; birth.

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

Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

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..

Anthropogeny :: Anthropogeny (n.) The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man..

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

Generation :: Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

Penis :: Penis (n.) The male member, or organ of 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..

Theogony :: Theogony (n.) The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod..

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