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cenogenesis

(sē′nō jen′ə sis, sen′ō-)

noun

the development of structures in the embryonic or larval stage of an organism that are adaptive and do not appear in the evolutionary history of its group

Origin: ceno- (< Gr kainos: see -cene) + -genesis

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cenogenetic adjective

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