ontogeny
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- ontogenetic adjective
- ontogenetical adjective
- ontogenetically adverb
- ontogenic adjective
- ontogenically adverb
- ontogenist noun
Etymology
Origin of ontogeny
Example Sentences
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Martin starts rambling off a list of words: thaumatology, ontology, eschatology, epistemology, phenomenology, teleology, etiology, ontogeny.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2020
Distinct routes of lineage development reshape the human blood hierarchy across ontogeny.
From Nature • Jan. 23, 2018
Furthermore, their supratemporal fenestrae are proportionally small and become smaller during ontogeny.
From Scientific American • May 24, 2012
It’s as if these two highly esteemed, resolutely quirky filmmakers had been assigned the complementary subjects of ontogeny and eschatology, and responded with their grand, distilled visions.
From Time • Nov. 10, 2011
Sometimes he calls in ontogeny to countenance the discovery of supposed ancestors: but frequently he does no more than affirm their existence.
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.
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