Word Meanings - XENOGENESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Same as Heterogenesis. The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another. Huxley.
Related words: (words related to XENOGENESIS)
- ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - HETEROGENESIS
Spontaneous generation, so called. - FANCIFUL
1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - FANCIED
Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong. - FANCILESS
Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong. - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - PRODUCTION
1. The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. 2. That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the - ORGANISM
An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual. Note: Some of the lower forms of life are - ANOTHER-GATES
Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras. - FANCIER
1. One who is governed by fancy. "Not reasoners, but fanciers." Macaulay. 2. One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird - BIRD FANCIER
1. One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds. 2. One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill. - MICROORGANISM; MICRO-ORGANISM
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases. - ENTORGANISM
An internal parasitic organism. - DOG FANCIER
One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs. - ECTORGANISM
An external parasitic organism. - REPRODUCTION
the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction . In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of - PROTOORGANISM; PROTOOERGANISM
An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom. - UNDERPRODUCTION
The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker. - TITANOTHERIUM
A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.