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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Wave-genertation; a dynamic theory of generation which assumes that reproducation is effected by a kind of wave-motion or rhymical pulsation of plastidules. See the quotations.
Wiktionary
- n. biology A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Biol.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
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- peri- + genesis? (Wiktionary)
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