Definition of "metagenetic" []

• Of, relating to, or produced as a result of metagenesis (adjective)

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• "Professor Owen, tells us (Plants and Animals under Domestication, vol.ii. p. 362, ed. 1875), that in the case of what is called metagenetic development, "the new parts are not moulded upon the inner surfaces of the old ones."