germ history

== English == === Alternative forms === germ-history === Etymology === Calque of German Keimesgeschichte, from Keim (“germ”) + Geschichte (“history”). === Noun === germ history (countable and uncountable, plural germ histories) (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) Ontogeny, specifically as a supposed recapitulation of phylogeny. Antonym: tribal history Hypernym: biogeny Hyponyms: morphogeny, physiogeny === References ===