syngenesious, syn genes i an

[SYN GENESIA.] Bot .: Having the anthers united by their margins into a tube, as in the Composites, in the violet, the balsam, .; of or belonging to the cla Syn genes i a (q. v.). sỹn gěně-sis, s. [SYN GENES I A.] Biol.: (See extract.) "The theory of Syngenesis , which considers the embryo to be the product of both male and female, is as old as Empedocles, though it had no better basis than the observed resemblance between the offspring and both parents. Modern research has furnished a scientific basis by showing that, while in the higher animals both ova and spermatozoa are equally indispensable, they are them. selves only modifications of one and the same anatomical element."-Lewes: Aristotle , p. 353. syn-gě nět-ic, a. [SYNGENESIS.] Of or belonging to Syngenesis (q. v.). "The Syngenetic theory-which makes both parents equally progenitors."- Lewes : Aristotle , p. 351.