CENOGENESIS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
   Synonym(s)
   • caenogenesis (what does caenogenesis mean?)
   • cainogenesis (what does cainogenesis mean?)
   • kainogenesis (what does kainogenesis mean?)
   • kenogenesis (what does kenogenesis mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) cenogenesis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • growth (what does growth mean?)
   • growing (what does growing mean?)
   • maturation (what does maturation mean?)
   • development (what does development mean?)
   • ontogeny (what does ontogeny mean?)
   • ontogenesis (what does ontogenesis mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • palingenesis (what does palingenesis mean?)
   • recapitulation (what does recapitulation mean?)