organogeny

== English == === Etymology 1 === From organo- (“biological organs”) +‎ -geny (“origin”). ==== Noun ==== organogeny (usually uncountable, plural organogenies) (dated) Organogenesis. === Etymology 2 === Learned borrowing from German Organogenie, itself from organo- +‎ -genie; equivalent to organo- (“biological organs”) +‎ -geny (“origin”). ==== Noun ==== organogeny (usually uncountable, plural organogenies) (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation) The study of the evolution of the forms of biological organs and systems of organs by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny. ===== Antonyms ===== organophyly ===== Hypernyms ===== morphogeny ===== Coordinate terms ===== histogeny blastogeny cormogeny === References === “organogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.