cenogenesis
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introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | recapitulation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cenogenetic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | growth |