English dictionary · noun

orogeny

The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.

Meaning and definitions

1. The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.

Connected roots

• gen-

  birth, origin, kind

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  Relating to genetics or genes.

• oxygen

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  a colorless, odorless gas that is the lightest chemical element

• genesis

  the origin or mode of formation of something

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• genealogy

  a line of descent traced from an ancestor

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  of the same kind; uniform in composition

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• heterogeneous

  diverse in character or content

• pathogenesis

  The origin and development of a disease.

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  The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

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• allogeneic

  Genetically different because of being derived from separate individuals of the same species.

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