English noun: ontogeny |
| 1. | ontogeny (process) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level |
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| Samples | He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children.
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| Synonyms | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis |
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| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | amelogenesis, angiogenesis, anthesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, culture, cytogenesis, cytogeny, dentition, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, habit, inflorescence, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, leafing, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, odontiasis, palingenesis, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, recapitulation, rooting, sprouting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation, virilisation, virilization |
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| Part holonym | gastrulation |
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| Domain category | biological science, biology |
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| Domain category members | isometry |
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| Antonyms | nondevelopment |
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