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单词 embryogony
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embryogonyn.

Brit. /ˌɛmbrɪˈɒɡəni/, U.S. /ˌɛmbriˈɑɡəni/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: embryo- comb. form, -gony comb. form.
Etymology: < embryo- comb. form + -gony comb. form, after French embryogénie embryogeny n. Compare earlier embryogeny n. and slightly later embryogenesis n.
The origin, formation, or development of an embryo; an instance of this. Cf. embryogenesis n., embryogeny n.In later use esp. in philosophical and mythological contexts.
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embryology?1781
embryogeny1822
embryogony1829
ontogeny1874
1829 R. Townsend & W. West tr. G. Andral Treat. Pathol. Anat. I. 292 The knowledge which we now possess of the laws of embryogony [Fr. l'embryogénie], as well as of those which regulate the nutrition of different animals.
1839 J. Hope Treat. Dis. Heart & Great Vessels (ed. 3) iii. vii. 353 This is in accordance with the laws of embryogony and of the animal scale.
1869 Hours at Home 9 111 Every organism springs from a germ, which is simply a molecule endowed with life and surrounded by a mass of inert molecules, which it feeds upon... The embryogony of nations presents the same phenomenon.
1922 Open Court 36 434 Man, standing at the summit, has passed through all lower degrees of evolution, and it is, therefore, in human embryogony that we find unrolled the great panorama of organization.
1970 Hist. Relig. 10 137 As for the origin of the cosmogonical myth..I agree with Stricker that in the last resort this myth must be a macrocosmic projection of the embryogony.
2002 A. Jenkins tr. J. Assmann Mind of Egypt xvi. 219 Akhnaten restricts himself to the present.., treating creation on the one hand as an embryogony (the origin of life in the womb) and on the other as an ecology (the wise arrangement of the world).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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