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  • noun biology Production of living offspring between organisms belonging to the same species.
  • noun rare Community of ancestry or origin.

Etymologies

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homoe- + -o- + -genesis, from Ancient Greek: ὅμοιος (homoios, "of like kind”, “similar") in conjunction with γένεσις (genesis, "origin, beginning, creation").

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