Definition of generation

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

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Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration..
Pudenda :: Pudenda (n. pl.) The external organs of generation.
Panspermy :: Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
Caseation :: Caseation (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart..
Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..
Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.
Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Digenea :: Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents..
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..
Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle..
Tritozooid :: Tritozooid (n.) A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
Posterity :: Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
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..
Gasogen :: Gasogen (n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid..
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
Phytogeny :: Phytogeny (n.) The doctrine of the generation of plants.
Archegony :: Archegony (n.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.
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