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10 words match “METAGE”

METAGE n. 2 definitions
Measurement, especially of coal. De Foe.
METAGENESIS n. 2 definitions
extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.
METAGENETIC a.
Of or pertaining to metagenesis.
METAGENIC a.
Metagenetic.
GREEK CALENDAR n.
Hecatombæon (July-Aug.). 2. Metageitnion (Aug.-Sept.). 3. Boëdromion (Sept.-Oct.). 4. Pyanepsion (Oct.-Nov.). 5. Mæmacterion (Nov.-Dec.). 6. Poseideon (Dec.-Jan.). 7. Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.). 8. Anthesterion (Feb.-Mar.). 9. Elaphebolion (Mar.-Apr.). 10. Munychion (Apr.-May). 11. Thargelion (May-June). 12. Scirophorion (Ju…
HETEROGAMY n.
neration, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate. Claus & Sedgwick.
MONOGENESIS n.
yo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis. E. van Beneden.
PARTHENOGENESIS n.
e of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.
SCOLEX n.
The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.
STROBILE n.
ng from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.