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That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.
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That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.
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That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.
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That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.
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That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.
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That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
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That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .
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That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
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