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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.
  2. n. Generation of living organisms from other living organisms.
  3. n. See biosynthesis.
  4. n. The supposed recurrence of the evolutionary stages of a species during the embryonic development and differentiation of a member of that species. Also called recapitulation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The genesis or production of living beings from living beings; generation in an ordinary sense: the converse of spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis. Various methods in which biogenesis is known to occur give rise to special terms, as gamogenesis, parthenogenesis, etc.
  2. n. The doctrine which holds that the genesis of living beings from living beings is the only one of which we have any knowledge, and which investigates or speculates upon the facts in the case upon such premises: the opposite of abiogenesis.
  3. n. Same as biogeny, 1.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms
  2. n. biosynthesis

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- called also biogeny; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
  2. n. Life development generally.
  3. n. the production of a chemical compound by a living organism.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the production of living organisms from other living organisms
  2. n. production of a chemical compound by a living organism

Etymologies

  1. bio- + -genesis (Wiktionary)

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