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monogeny en · NOUN

Etymology

From mono- + -geny.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Production of offspring of only one sex.
   • If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny). 1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature :: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality, page 441:
2. (historical, uncountable) The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin.
3. (uncountable) Synonym of monogenesis.

Antonyms

amphogenic

Deriveds

monogenist

Hyponyms

thelygeny (single-sex offspring) · arrhenogeny (single-sex offspring)

Synonyms

monogenesis