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Biogenesis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Biogenesis has 2 senses
- biogenesis(n = noun.process) biosynthesis - production of a chemical compound by a living organism; Array is a kind of synthesis
- biogenesis(n = noun.act) biogeny - the production of living organisms from other living organisms; Array is a kind of generation, multiplication, propagation
Derived form adjective biogenous1
Derived forms adjective biogenetic1, adjective biogenous1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Biogenesis, n. [Gr. bi`os life + , , birth.].
- A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- called also
biogeny ; -- opposed toabiogenesis . [1913 Webster] - the production of a chemical compound by a living organism. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Biogenesis, n.
1 the synthesis of substances by living organisms.
2 the hypothesis that a living organism arises only from another similar living organism.
1 the synthesis of substances by living organisms.
2 the hypothesis that a living organism arises only from another similar living organism.
Derivative
biogenetic adj.
ROGET THESAURUS
Biogenesis
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
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