monogenyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

monogeny (uncountable)

1. Production of offspring of only one sex.

   Antonym: amphogenic

   • 1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature :: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality‎, page 441:

     If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny).

2. (anthropology, historical) The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin.
3. Synonym of monogenesis.

派生語

下位語

• (single-sex offspring): arrhenogeny, thelygeny

参照

“monogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nomogeny, monogyne, Monongye