单词 | progeneration |
释义 | progenerationn. The begetting of offspring; procreation, reproduction. Frequently in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] i-streonc893 strainc950 akennessOE spreadingOE upspringc1000 akenningOE akennednessOE strainc1175 streningc1230 begetc1330 begettingc1330 engendrurec1350 generationa1382 gettinga1382 genderingc1384 multiplicationa1387 increase1390 prolificationa1393 procreationc1395 engenderinga1400 gendrure?a1400 engendure?a1425 progeniturec1429 propagation?1440 teemingc1450 breeda1500 geniturea1500 engenderment1507 progeneration1548 fathering1549 engender1556 race1561 multiplying1599 pullulation1641 progermination1648 reproduction1713 face-making1785 baby-making1827 begettal1864 fertility1866 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xx. f. clxi Mankynde cannot by any other possible meanes bee continued in progeneracion of issue. 1652 Liber Patris Sapientiæ in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 199 Sche ys a very frendly mixar, The progeneration of a greate Elixar. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Progeneration, a breeding or bringing forth. 1763 tr. P. Portal Compl. Pract. Midwives xxx. 113 We..looked for the seminal vessels, but found nothing of them, nor any other part belonging to progeneration. 1868 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 724 All our modern family associations are invariably directed in the same uniform channel of greater preservation of the pure Caucasian progeneration. 1908 Gazette (Stevens Point, Wisconsin) 19 Feb. ii. 9/4 Burbank, understanding the laws of progeneration and properly directing these laws, has brought into existence highest perfection in plant life. 1960 Times 30 Dec. 3/4 The act of setting words to music is..like the progeneration of children by two parents whose individual characteristics are blended diversely in..their offspring. 2000 Philos. Sci. 67 Suppl. 361 Special or developmental progeneration is multiplication with material overlap of mechanisms conferring the capacity to develop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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