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ontogeny |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ontogeny n : 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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: {growth}, {growing}, {maturation}, {development}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
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