biogeny en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From bio- + -geny.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Biogenesis.
Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
biogeny en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
Learned borrowing from German Biogenie, itself from bio- + -genie; equivalent to bio- (“life”) + -geny (“origin”).
Meanings
- (historical, qualifier:theory of recapitulation, rare, uncountable) The study of evolutionary history not only phylogenically, by also by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.