Etymology

histogeny

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German Histogenie
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histogeny · noun1

From histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).

histogeny · noun2

  1. German · learned borrowing fromHistogenie
  2. English todayhistogeny

Learned borrowing from German Histogenie, itself from histo- + -genie; equivalent to histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).

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