Epigenese
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Language
German
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Epigenese is aGermannoun. It means: die von Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1738–1794) in seiner „Theoria generationis“ begründete und von Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) ausgearbeitete Theorie, dass – entgegen der Präformationstheorie – all... Pronounced [epiɡeˈneːzə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Epigenese |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [epiɡeˈneːzə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Epigenese is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [epiɡeˈneːzə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Epigenese in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Epigenese, spelled E-P-I-G-E-N-E-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die von Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1738–1794) in seiner „Theoria generationis“ begründete und von Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) ausgearbeitete Theorie, dass – entgegen der Präformationstheorie – alle Organismen in ihrer Embryogenese eine materielle Differentiation von einfachen zu komplexen Gebilden durchlaufen
- 2Vorgang in der Natur, der bestehende Strukturen nachträglich überformt oder überlagert (wie beispielsweise die Neuanlage eines Flusstales durch Laufverlegung des ursprünglichen Flusses oder die spätere Entstehung von geologischen Lagerstätten)
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