Henogeny

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ontogenesis \On`to*gen"e*sis\, Ontogeny \On*tog"e*ny\, n. [See
     {Ontology}, and {Genesis}.] (Biol.)
     The history of the individual development of an organism; the
     sequence of events involved in the development of an
     organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the
     development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from


     {phylogeny}, or evolution of the tribe. Called also
     {henogenesis}, {henogeny}.
  
     Syn: growth, growing, maturation, development.
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