indicating genesis, development, or generation: biogenesis, parthenogenesis
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held
(held),USA pronunciation v.
Held (held),USA pronunciation n.
- pt. and a pp. of hold.
- a combining form of genesis: parthenogenesis.
Held (held),USA pronunciation n.
- Biographical John, Jr., 1889–1958, U.S. cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.
'-genesis' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-gen
- -gony
- Abel
- Abraham
- Adam
- Ararat
- Ashkenazi
- Babel
- Benjamin
- Bethel
- Cain
- Cush
- Dan
- Deborah
- Enoch
- Enos
- Ephraim
- Esau
- Eve
- Flood
- Gen.
- Genesis
- Gomorrah
- Goshen
- Isaac
- Ishmael
- Issachar
- Jacob's ladder
- Jacopo della Quercia
- Japheth
- Joseph
- Jubal
- Judah
- Laban
- Leah
- Levi
- Lot
- Manasseh
- Melchizedek
- Methuselah
- Midian
- abiogenesis
- agamogenesis
- agenesis
- anagenesis
- angiogenesis
- antediluvian
- anthropogenesis
- anticyclogenesis
- ark