heterogenetic

American  

[het-uh-roh-juh-net-ik] / ˌhɛt ə roʊ dʒəˈnɛt ɪk /

Also heterogenic

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.

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Other Word Forms

• heterogenetically adverb

Etymology

Origin of heterogenetic

First recorded in 1870–75; hetero- + -genetic

Example Sentences

The real causes of such a heterogenetic generation, if it took place at all, have not yet been found; therefore we have to treat only of the abstract possibilities of its conceivableness.

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.

This shows that its author believed in the possibility of the "superior organic forms," like the mastodon, megatherium, etc. from the "heterogenetic elements"--those undergoing every conceivable change--as well as the "inferior forms."

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Heer has introduced into scientific language the term "new-modeling of the species," K�lliker that of a "heterogenetic generation," and Baumg�rtner that of a "transmutation of the types through a metamorphosis of germs."

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.

But how his "sum-total of external conditions," acting upon dead matter, can "engender" living matter, is one of those "related heterogenetic phenomena" which he does not condescend to explain.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Among them we find also scientists who answer the question in the sense of a new-modeling of the species, of a heterogenetic generation, and of a metamorphosis of germs.

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.