Usually means: Reproductive cycle alternating sexual, asexual stages.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. metagenesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. metagenesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metagenesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metagenesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metagenesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. metagenesis: Wordnik
  7. metagenesis: Wiktionary
  8. metagenesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. metagenesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. metagenesis: Dictionary.com
  11. Metagenesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Metagenesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. metagenesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. metagenesis: Rhymezone
  15. Metagenesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. metagenesis: FreeDictionary.org
  17. metagenesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. metagenesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metagenesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. metagenesis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. metagenesis: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metagenesis)

▸ noun:  (biology) The production of sexual and asexual organisms in alternate generations.

Similar:
digenesis, alternation of generations, geneagenesis, alternate generation, amphigenesis, anthogenesis, heterogenesis, paragenesis, unigenesis, xenogenesis, more...

Opposite:
ametagenesis, direct development, homogenesis

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Similar:
digenesis, alternation of generations, geneagenesis, alternate generation, amphigenesis, anthogenesis, heterogenesis, paragenesis, unigenesis, xenogenesis, more...

Opposite:
ametagenesis, direct development, homogenesis



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