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Ontogeny

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of ontogenesis. countable, uncountable
  2. 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

Etymology

From onto- + -geny, after German Ontogenie.

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