oogeneticadj.

1890 Cent. Dict. Oögenetic, of or pertaining to oögenesis.

1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. xxii. 500 Some hypothetic rudiments they [sc. Weismann and others] consider to exist at the very earliest stage of the embryonic, or oogenetic process.

1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 280 Or we might postulate the suppression altogether of the differential oogenetic division of the egg of a white heterozygous.

1926 Q. Rev. Biol. 1 352/2 Moreover, oogenetic tissue cannot flourish in a scrotum nor spermatogenic within the abdominal cavity.

1969 Science 6 June 1172/1 The diol, topically administered by the courting male, might conceivably act as an oogenetic ‘booster’, properly timed to coincide with mating.

1987 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 15 7990/2 (caption) Extracts from an equal number of follicles from each oogenetic stage were assayed.

2002 Jrnl. Zool. 256 479 These changes..are related to physiological events such as growing and moulting in nymphs, feeding and mating activities in males and the oogenetic cycle in females.