cenogenesis

1. 1.

   introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)

   Synonymskenogenesiscaenogenesiscainogenesiskainogenesis

   Antonymspalingenesis

   Broadergrowth

Other forms of cenogenesis

plural

cenogenesises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cenogenesis

What does cenogenesis mean?

cenogenesis means "introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)".

How many syllables are in cenogenesis?

cenogenesis has 5 syllables: ce-no-ge-ne-sis. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for cenogenesis?

Close synonyms include kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cenogenesis?

The recorded antonyms are palingenesis.

Is cenogenesis a common word?

cenogenesis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.