ontogeny

Meanings

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;
• ONTOGENY n pl. -NIES the development of an individual organism

Synonyms

• growth
• growing
• maturation
• development
• ontogenesis

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