"telegony" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"And that telegony is still sub judice?\" \"Undoubtedly.\" \"And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?\" \"Why, surely!\" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.",
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          "sense": "inheritance of the characteristics of a non-biological father",
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          "word": "télégonie"
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      "sense": "inheritance of the characteristics of a non-biological father",
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