proterogeneticadj.
/ˌprəʊtərəʊdʒᵻˈnɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌproʊdəroʊdʒᵻˈnɛdɪk/ Biology. Now chiefly historical.
Of, characterized by, or involving proterogenesis.
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high?1548
recapitulative1836
retrogressive1853
transmutational1861
ontogenetic1869
convergent1871
phylogenetic1876
correlative1877
ontogenic1878
phylogenetical1879
phytogenetic1882
monotypic1888
phytogenetical1888
polytypic1888
ontogenal1890
phylogenal1890
recapitulatory1890
tachygenetic1893
ontogenetical1894
anagenetic1896
orthogenic1896
orthogenetic1899
macroevolutionary1937
microevolutionary1937
proterogenetic1938
speciational1944
parapatric1953
cladogenetic1957
allochronic1960
stasigenetic1965
stasipatric1967
speciating1970
punctuational1976
tachygenic-
1938 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 79 The series as it stands may be quoted in support of either the proterogenetic or the tachygenetic view, according to which end of the series is taken as the starting point. Schindewolf adopts the former.
1945 Jrnl. Paleontol. 19 501/1 Were the series a proterogenetic one, the embryonic rostrum should be found in the earliest of the belemnoids.
1996 Paleobiology 22 275/1 Blow would consider the rapid Paleogene radiation of keeled morozovellids as having a similar proterogenetic beginning.
Derivatives
ˌproterogeˈnetically adv.
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ontogenetically1872
phylogenetically1872
phytogenetically1881
ontogenically1888
orthogenetically1907
proterogenetically1938
cladogenetically1957
stasipatrically1968
parapatrically1969
1938 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 82 Trend characters, on the other hand, arise either cœnogenetically or deuterogenetically and proceed proterogenetically or tachygenetically towards later or earlier stages in life-history respectively in successive generations.
1994 Jrnl. Paleontol. 68 293/1 Kheraiceras evolved proterogenetically from Bullatimorphites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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