Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
heterogenesis , 1. - noun In biology, mixed parthenogenesis, the alternation of sexual and parthenogenetic generations. See
normal parthenogenesis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Heterogenesis.
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- noun biology
heterogenesis
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Examples
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(According to Rothe, however, anterior heterogeny comparatively rare.)
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Apart from this heterogeny, she was entirely normal and feminine.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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Are we to say that the evidence for and against heterogeny is equally balanced?
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Germany the ablest literature of the subject, even that opposed to heterogeny, is infected with this error; while heterogenists at home and abroad have based upon it a triumphant demonstration of, their doctrine.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Chaplin blamed the inability of the medium to move beyond male-centric power fantasies as a direct result of developer heterogeny and immaturity.
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(oligotrichosis terminalis), approximating to the infantile type, while another presents a complex and very rare piliferous heterogeny.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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Sometimes he would put up a heterogeny [this is a word made by Mr. Hawthorne, but one that was needed.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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