单词 | zoogony |
释义 | zoogonyn. The generation or development of animals or of living things generally; a theory, doctrine, or account relating to this. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > generation of animals zoogony1675 get1807 zoogeny1826 1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 242 The Theogonie and Zoogonie [printed -enie] of the Antients. 1752 J. Jackson Chronol. Antiq. III. 11 This is his dreaming and senseless Zoogony, or Generation of Animals, extracted from the Writings of Taaut. 1842 Methodist Q. Rev. Apr. The supports of his grand law-creation are three hypotheses..his cosmogony, zoogony, zoonomy. 1863 Bibliotheca Sacra July 521 Lamarck and other French zoölogists, attempted to show how animals and plants might spring, by the force of law, from particles inherently vitalized, which may be called the zoögony of the hypothesis. 1941 Classical Q. 35 10/1 Close connexion of the anthropology with the cosmogony and zoogony is shown by the similar process of evolution. 1970 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 90 156 Love's action..in producing animal parts at the beginning of her zoogony. 2004 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 102 99 Empedocles' account of the mixed-up hybrid creatures that came into existence in the primordial zoogony. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1675 |
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