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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The growth and development of a plant.
  • noun The origin and evolutionary development of plants.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The doctrine of the generation of plants.

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  • noun biology The origin and evolutionary development of plants.
  • noun biology The development of a plant from the embryo

Etymologies

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phyto- + -genesis

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