o 1 n 1 t 1 o 1 g 2 e 1 n 1 y 4
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
originFrom onto- + -geny, after German Ontogenie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0