ontogeny : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ontogeny	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ontogeny n (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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" Synonym(s): growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis Antonym(s): nondevelopment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ontogenesis \On`togen"esis\, Ontogeny \Ontog"eny\, 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}.