Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

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  • noun medicine A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.

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  • noun inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile

Etymologies

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caco- + -genesis

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