organogeny Biol.
(ɔːgəˈnɒdʒɪnɪ)
[mod. f. organo- + -geny; in F. organogénie (Littré).]
a. The production or development of the organs of an animal or plant. b. That department of biology which deals with this.
| 1844 Dunglison Dict. Med. Sc., Organogeny..The doctrine of the formation of the different organs. 1854 H. Spencer Ess. (1858) 166 (Genesis of Science) [Oken] says..Biology, therefore, divides into Organogeny, Phytosophy, Zoosophy. 1857 Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwif. 211 A few interesting particulars of organogeny. 1888 Athenæum 18 Aug. 227/3 Organogeny, or the study of development, then showed that these types were not wholly imaginary. |
So orgaˈnogenist, one versed in organogeny.
| 1895 Athenæum 27 July 134/2 He..became a pupil of Payer, whose work as an organogenist he greatly admired. |