ONTOGENY 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)
   • development (what does development mean?)
   • growing (what does growing mean?)
   • growth (what does growth mean?)
   • maturation (what does maturation mean?)
   • ontogenesis (what does ontogenesis mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
   Hypernyms(s) ontogeny is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • organic process (what does organic process mean?)
   • biological process (what does biological process mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • nondevelopment (what does nondevelopment mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • culture (what does culture mean?)
   • amelogenesis (what does amelogenesis mean?)
   • angiogenesis (what does angiogenesis mean?)
   • apposition (what does apposition mean?)
   • auxesis (what does auxesis mean?)
   • blossoming (what does blossoming mean?)
   • flowering (what does flowering mean?)
   • florescence (what does florescence mean?)
   • inflorescence (what does inflorescence mean?)
   • anthesis (what does anthesis mean?)
   • efflorescence (what does efflorescence mean?)
   • cenogenesis (what does cenogenesis mean?)
   • kenogenesis (what does kenogenesis mean?)
   • caenogenesis (what does caenogenesis mean?)
   • cainogenesis (what does cainogenesis mean?)
   • kainogenesis (what does kainogenesis mean?)
   • cohesion (what does cohesion mean?)
   • cytogenesis (what does cytogenesis mean?)
   • cytogeny (what does cytogeny mean?)
   • foliation (what does foliation mean?)
   • leafing (what does leafing mean?)
   • fructification (what does fructification mean?)
   • gametogenesis (what does gametogenesis mean?)
   • germination (what does germination mean?)
   • sprouting (what does sprouting mean?)
   • infructescence (what does infructescence mean?)
   • intussusception (what does intussusception mean?)
   • juvenescence (what does juvenescence mean?)
   • life cycle (what does life cycle mean?)
   • masculinization (what does masculinization mean?)
   • masculinisation (what does masculinisation mean?)
   • virilization (what does virilization mean?)
   • virilisation (what does virilisation mean?)
   • morphogenesis (what does morphogenesis mean?)
   • myelinization (what does myelinization mean?)
   • myelinisation (what does myelinisation mean?)
   • neurogenesis (what does neurogenesis mean?)
   • palingenesis (what does palingenesis mean?)
   • recapitulation (what does recapitulation mean?)
   • proliferation (what does proliferation mean?)
   • psychomotor development (what does psychomotor development mean?)
   • psychosexual development (what does psychosexual development mean?)
   • rooting (what does rooting mean?)
   • suppression (what does suppression mean?)
   • teething (what does teething mean?)
   • dentition (what does dentition mean?)
   • odontiasis (what does odontiasis mean?)
   • teratogenesis (what does teratogenesis mean?)
   • vegetation (what does vegetation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • develop (what does develop mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
   • develop (what does develop mean?)
   • produce (what does produce mean?)
   • get (what does get mean?)
   • acquire (what does acquire mean?)
   • senesce (what does senesce mean?)
   • age (what does age mean?)
   • get on (what does get on mean?)
   • mature (what does mature mean?)
   • maturate (what does maturate mean?)
   • senesce (what does senesce mean?)
   • age (what does age mean?)
   • get on (what does get on mean?)
   • mature (what does mature mean?)
   • maturate (what does maturate mean?)
   • mature (what does mature mean?)
   • maturate (what does maturate mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
   • mature (what does mature mean?)
   • maturate (what does maturate mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)