单词 | zoogeny |
释义 | zoogenyn. Now historical. The process of animal reproduction and development; the origin or evolution of animals or animal species. Also: a theory, doctrine, or account of this; the branch of study concerned with this. Cf. zoogony n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] rearinga1398 nourishing1615 conservation1646 zoosophy1662 culture1744 cultivation1791 zoogeny1826 zootechny1841 stock-keeping1844 ranching1851 conditioning1861 zootechnics1863 zooculture1873 zootrophy1877 animaliculture1879 mothering1922 stockmanship1959 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > generation of animals zoogony1675 get1807 zoogeny1826 1826 N. Amer. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 1 129 The first and principal one, the law on which all zoogeny reposes, is the eccentric development of animals. 1844 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 41 463 Comparative Embryology..has of recent years become one of the very fundamental parts of Zoogeny. 1858 H. Spencer Ess. 1st Ser. iv. 166 [Oken's Classification] Biology. Organosophy, Phytogeny, Phyto-physiology, Phytology, Zoogeny, Physiology [etc.]. 1875 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind 1st Ser. II. iv. 85 When Zoogeny replaces Zoology, and the question of origin is mooted, the two hypotheses of Creation and Natural Selection struggle for supremacy. 1917 E. S. Russell Form & Function xii. 206 He still holds fast to the main thesis of transcendentalism—..the repetition in the embryogeny of the higher animals of the ‘zoogeny’ of the lower. 2006 E. Visnovsky in H. J. Birx Encycl. Anthrop. II. 810/1 Empedocles's biological explanation of zoogeny (the origin of species). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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