ALTERNATE GENERATION
\ɔːltˈɜːnət d͡ʒˌɛnəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɔːltˈɜːnət dʒˌɛnəɹˈeɪʃən], \ɔː_l_t_ˈɜː_n_ə_t dʒ_ˌɛ_n_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ALTERNATE GENERATION
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn. : digenesis. An alternation of agamogenesis with gamogenesis; in the same type, one or several sexless generations intervening between the sexual generations.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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That process of reproduction in which one impregnation supplies two or more generations, called Nursing generations. Reproduction by impregnation then recurs. Probably it is an internal budding or fission. Most striking in Hydrozoa, but Entozoa and Molluscoids supply instances.
By Henry Percy Smith
