"germ history" meaning in English

See germ history in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: germ histories [plural], germ-history [alternative]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from German Keimesgeschichte. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|de|Keimesgeschichte}} Learned borrowing from German Keimesgeschichte Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} germ history (countable and uncountable, plural germ histories)
  1. (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) Ontogeny, specifically as a supposed recapitulation of phylogeny. Tags: countable, historical, rare, uncountable Hypernyms: biogeny Hyponyms: morphogeny, physiogeny Coordinate_terms: tribal history
    Sense id: en-germ_history-en-noun-xGZdtt-M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Biology Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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