Associations to the word «Ontogeny»

Wiktionary

ONTOGENY, noun. The development of an individual organism.

Dictionary definition

ONTOGENY, noun. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley