autogeny, autogony
(ɔːˈtɒdʒɪnɪ, -ˈɒgənɪ)
[f. Gr. αὐτογενής, -γόνος, self-produced: see prec.]
A mode of spontaneous generation; (see quot.).
| 1875 Schmidt Desc. & Darw. 320 Haeckel's hypothesis of Autogony. 1876 tr. Haeckel's Hist. Creat. I. 339 In spontaneous generation..we must first distinguish two essentially different kinds, viz. autogeny and plasmogeny. By autogeny we understand the origin of a most simple organic individual in an inorganic formative fluid. |