telegonyn.

1893 W. N. Parker & H. Rönnfeldt tr. A. Weismann Germ-plasm xii. 383 The phenomenon generally known as ‘infection of the germ’,—which, in case it really exists, I should prefer to speak of as telegony [Ger. Telegonie].

1899 Daily News 20 June 8/5 ‘The Penycuik Experiments’,..undertaken to try and throw some light upon reversion and the difficult problem of telegony.

1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 492/2 It was Lord Morton's crossing of a quagga with a chestnut mare that led Agassiz, Romanes, and Darwin to believe in telegony—the theory..that offspring sometimes inherit characteristics from a previous mate of their dam.

1967 Technol. & Culture 8 49 The idea of telegony dies hard, and many dog-breeders still feel that a thoroughbred bitch who couples with a dog of a different breed is ruined and can never produce pure-bred pups.

2013 S. Franklin Biol. Relatives iii. 127 His scientific goal was to disprove telegony, but he also sought to confirm a new means of investigating it.

1893 Nat. Sci. Dec. 436 Cases which seem difficult of explanation on any other than the Telegonic theory.

1902 Amer. Vet. Rev. 25 880 Notwithstanding the extreme hereditary power of the white boar of her second pregnancy, she had not received any telegonic effect from him.

2008 A. N. Greene Horses Work iii. 102 Telegonic belief eventually faded, and in 1907 the early genetic scientist Eugene Davenport dismissed the story of Lord Morton's mare as ‘overworked’.

1893 Nature 28 Sept. 516/2 In no one case has there been the smallest resemblance to their telegonous sires.

1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Sept. 722/2 A few cases and opinions will make it clear that the idea of the resemblance of the telegonous offspring to the previous offspring has long been current.

2001 Z. Wicomb David's Story 158 It was Gert who declared that she looked like a Le Fleur, and indeed, those telegonous eyes were a brilliant green.