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Webster 1913 Edition

Morphogeny

Mor-phog′e-ny

,

Noun.

[

form

+ root of

γίγνεσθαι

to be born.]

(Biol.)

History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; – distinguished from

physiogeny

.

Haeckel.