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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]