Definition of "syngenesis" []

• Sexual reproduction. (noun)

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• "They are eaten by the natives, but the acidity is unpleasant, owing to its being mixed with a bitter; the flowers are two inches long: tubo 4 angulato, basi-coccinescenti, laminis viridibus interstibus carneis, coccineo lineatis praesenti transverse, antheris syngenesis."
• "Growth, therefore, was, on this hypothesis, a process partly of simple evolution, and partly of what has been termed "syngenesis.""