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Ontogeny

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, - in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ontogeny'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/ontogeny.html. 1828.