Word Meanings - KENOGENESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis.
Related words: (words related to KENOGENESIS)
- PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - EMBRYO SAC
See EMBRYONIC - MODIFICATION
The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley. - EMBRYOTOMY
The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal. - EMBRYON
See EMBRYO - EMBRYOGRAPHY
The general description of embryos. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - EVOLUTIONIST
1. One skilled in evolutions. 2. one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin. - EMBRYOTROPH
The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished. - EVOLUTIONISM
The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - CONSEQUENCE
A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. 3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows - EMBRYOPLASTIC
Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells. - EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
In the state of, or having, an embryonal. - EMBRYOLOGIST
One skilled in embryology. - PECULIARLY
In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually. - EMBRYONIC
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle , the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac. - PECULIAR
1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - DISTINGUISHABLE
1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - PROEMBRYO
The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses. - MONEMBRYONY
The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a. - INEMBRYONATE
Not embryonate. - INDISTINGUISHING
Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson. - PSEUDEMBRYO
A false embryo. An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding. - DEVOLUTION
1. The act of rolling down. The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward. 2. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable