cenogenesis
noun
ce·no·genesis
variants or coenogenesis or less commonly caenogenesis
¦sēnə,
¦senə+
: introduction during development of adaptive characters or structures that are absent from the earlier phylogeny of a strain (as addition of the placenta to the common vertebrate pattern in mammalian evolution) —opposed to palingenesis
Word History
Etymology
German zänogenesis, from zän- cen- + Latin genesis birth
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- pyrochroite
- pyrocinchonic acid
- pyroclast
- pyroclastic
- pyroclasts
- pyrocoll
- pyrocollodion
- pyrocondensation
- pyroconductivities
- pyroconductivity
- pyrocotton
- pyrocrystalline
- pyroelectric
- pyroelectricities
- pyroelectricity
- pyroelectrics
- pyrogallate
- pyrogallol
- pyrogallols
- pyrogen
- pyrogenation
- pyrogenesis
- pyrogenetic