ONTOGENESIS as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • (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
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
    Hypernyms(s) ontogenesis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Antonym(s) Hyponym(s) Derived(s)