Words that rhyme with petrogenesis

n 1: the evolution or genesis of the human race [syn: anthropogenesis, anthropogeny]

n 1: production of a chemical compound by a living organism [syn: biosynthesis, biogenesis] 2: the production of living organisms from other living organisms [syn: biogenesis, biogeny]

n 1: asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores [syn: monogenesis, sporulation]

n 1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]

n 1: human conception without fertilization by a man [syn: parthenogenesis, parthenogeny, virgin birth] 2: process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods [syn: parthenogenesis, parthenogeny]

n 1: the origination and development of a disease

n 1: the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors 2: a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind

n 1: development of spermatozoa

n 1: a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed

n 1: the formation in animals of glycogen from glucose 2: the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand

n 1: the induction of sleep or hypnosis

n 1: alternation of sexual and asexual generations [syn: metagenesis, digenesis]

n 1: development of ova

n 1: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn: palingenesis, recapitulation] [ant: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis]

n 1: reproduction without the fusion of gametes [syn: asexual reproduction, agamogenesis]

n 1: the development of nerve tissues

n 1: (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis]