proterogenesis
/ˌprəʊtərəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/Biology. Now chiefly historical
noun
The appearance in the early stages of an organism's life of features characteristic of adult forms of its evolutionary descendants.
Origin
1930s. From protero- + -genesis, after German Proterogenesis.
- picke-devant
- pickeer
- pickeering
- pickelhaube
- picker
- pickerdevant
- pickerel
- pickerel frog
- pickerelweed
- pickering
- pickeringite
- Pickering, John
- Pickering, Timothy
- Pickering, William Hayward
- picker-up
- picker-upper
- picket
- picket ball
- picket boat
- picket bullet
- picketer
- picket fence
- picket guard
- picket house
- picket launch