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A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

nveying an occult meaning; mystic. The Heptarchus is a cabalistic of the first chapter of Genesis. Hallam.

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.

Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. Hutton.

Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.

Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

s. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty. -- Fig marigold (Bot.), the name of several plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are p…

Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which th…

Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.

sms can be produced only by the evolution or development of living germs or seeds. See Biogenesis, and Abiogenesis. As applied to the origin of disease, the theory claims that the zymotic diseases are due to the rapid development and multiplication of various bacteria, the germs or spores of which are either contained…

ory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis.

s indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

Relating to hæmatogenesis.

The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; hæmatogenesis.

by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.