Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal;
[syn: alternation of generations, heterogenesis, xenogenesis]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Xenogenesis \Xen`o*gen"e*sis\, n. [Gr. xe`nos a stranger + E.
genesis.] (Biol.)
(a) Same as Heterogenesis.
(b) The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an
organism of another. --Huxley.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
xenogenesis
n 1: the alternation of two or more different forms in the life
cycle of a plant or animal [syn: alternation of
generations, heterogenesis, xenogenesis]