Meaning & Definition of Ontogeny in English
English⟶
Ontogeny
/ɑntɑʤəni/
noun
1. (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
- "He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
synonym:
- growth,
- growing,
- maturation,
- development,
- ontogeny,
- ontogenesis