cacogenesis

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  1. In medicine, a morbid formation, whether congenital, as a monstrosity, or of later development, as a tumor.
  2. The quality, common in mixed breeds, of having a low vitality and of being infertile.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek κακός, bad, + γένεσις, generation: see genesis.
 

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