Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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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- noun biology A
theory which explainsinheritance by thetransmission of the type of growth force possessed by onegeneration to another.
Etymologies
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peri- + genesis?
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