metageneticadj.

1849 R. Owen Parthenogenesis 17 The successive generations, which..complete the metagenetic cycle.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 629/1 The peculiar metagenetic mode of development.

1942 Ecol. Monogr. 12 364 Among animals that have received two names as a consequence of metagenetic changes are: flukes, tapeworms, some roundworms, polyps, and jelly fishes.

1984 Adv. in Invertebr. Reprod. 3 270 A classical metagenetic cycle including sessile asexually multiplying polyps and pelagic medusae which reproduce sexually.

1997 Internat. Jrnl. Developmental Biol. 40 331 Most, if not all, major events in the metagenetic life-cycle of Cassiopea..depend on the interaction with specific biotic and physical cues.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 367/1 In metagenetic twins the crystal was at first simple, but afterwards, through some change in the material furnished for its increase or possibly induced in itself, it received new layers, or an extension in a reversed position.

1963 Internat. Geol. Rev. 7 1163 (heading) Nature of regional epigenetic and metagenetic facies.

1986 Geochem. Internat. 23 74 This organic matter..is easily converted to gas and petroleum under the catagenetic and metagenetic temperature regimes of increasing burial.

1999 Chem. Geol. 156 41 It is still not yet clear whether the enormous dry-gas accumulations in Cenomanian reservoirs are of microbial, ‘early-thermogenic’ or catagenetic/metagenetic origin.

1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. 367 If, instead of a single individual, several were to be thus developed metagenetically within a pre-existing form.