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Anamorphosis :: Anamorphosis (n.) A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration..

Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.

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..

Accrementition :: Accrementition (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds..

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

Caseation :: Caseation (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

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

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..

Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Generation.

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..

Necrobiosis :: Necrobiosis (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy..

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..

Oviparity :: Oviparity (n.) Generation by means of ova. See Generation.

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

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..

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

Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree..

Prothallus :: Prothallus (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc..

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..

Age :: Age (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation..

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