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Use "ontogenetic" in a sentence
"*This is similar to what has been called ontogenetic ritualization: the co-shaping by individuals of a behavior over time, until even the very initial part of the behavior carries meaning for them."
"S. frondaria's body (such as color) can be modified in response to the presence or absence of factors in the environment, on an "ontogenetic" timescale."
"And there's been more from the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, papers on the "rauisuchian" archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis; the ontogeny of Stegosaurus; ontogenetic and taxonomic implications of pattern and transition of surficial bone texture of the centrosaurine frill; and Adeopapposaurus, a new prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina."