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Webster 1913 Edition


Dysgenesis

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Dys-gen′e-sis

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Noun.
[Pref.
dys-
+
genesis
.]
(Biol.)
A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.