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Abiogenesis

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Abiogenesis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Abiogenesisn. [Gr. 'a priv. + bi`os life + ge`nesis, origin, birth.].
     The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.  [1913 Webster]
    "I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Abiogenesis, n.
1 the formation of living organisms from non-living substances.
2 the supposed spontaneous generation of living organisms.

Derivative
abiogenic adj.
Etymology
A-(1) + Gk bios life + GENESIS

ROGET THESAURUS

Abiogenesis

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

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