Associations to the word «Monogenesis»

Wiktionary

MONOGENESIS, noun. (anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.
MONOGENESIS, noun. (linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
MONOGENESIS, noun. The emergence from a single cause.

Dictionary definition

MONOGENESIS, noun. Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats