Ontogeny

Common synonyms include: development, growth, maturation, adaptation, animal life cycle, arthropod life cycle.

noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
Synonym of ontogenesis. countable, uncountable
2
(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 wordnet

"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."

From onto- + -geny, after German Ontogenie.