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Generation

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

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Beginning 76% connected

of Begin

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Breeding 76% connected

of Breed

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Phase 76% connected

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same o…

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Procreation 76% connected

The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Reproduction 76% connected

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Narrower term 3

Biogenesis 76% connected

Alt. of Biogeny

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Biogeny 76% connected

A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abioge…

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Posterity 76% connected

The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of…

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Generate 74% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Generate 74% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mother 74% connected

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

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Mother 74% connected

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

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Render 74% connected

One who rends.

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Render 74% connected

One who rends.

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Synonym 4

Contemporaries 92% connected

of Contemporary

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Genesis 92% connected

The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Multiplication 92% connected

The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Propagation 92% connected

The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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