ontogenesis

English

Traditional idealised representation of the comparative ontogenesis of vertebrate embryos. From left to right in columns: fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammals

Etymology

onto- +‎ -genesis

Noun

ontogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural ontogeneses)

1. The generation and development of an individual organism by the characteristic process of ontogeny associated with its species.

Synonyms

• ontogeny

Translations

arising or development of an individual organism

• Czech: ontogeneze (cs) f
• Dutch: ontogenese (nl) f
• Finnish: yksilönkehitys (fi), ontogeneesi (fi)
• Hebrew: אוֹנְטוֹגֶנֶזָה‎ f
• Hungarian: egyedfejlődés (hu)
• Italian: ontogenesi (it) f
• Occitan: ontogenèsi f

• Serbo-Croatian: ontogèneza (sh) f
• Slovak: ontogenéza f

See also

• phylogenesis

Anagrams

• tonogenesis