Meanings
- obsoleteuncountablebiologySexual dimorphism, especially in lepidopterans.
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It is a curious circumstance that, while albinic antigeny finds its most complete expression in high temperate regions, and melanic antigeny prevails toward the tropics, the albinic females of a partially antigenic species never appear in the spring brood, but increase in numbers throughout the hot season […]
1877, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Antigeny, Or Sexual Dimorphism in Butterflies, page 151
Origin
From ἀντί (antí, “against, opposite”) + γένος (génos, “sex, stock, race”).
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