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Meaning of "telegony" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TELEGONY

From tele- + -gony. Compare Greek tēlegonos ``born far from one's homeland''.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TELEGONY

telegony  [tɪˈlɛɡənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TELEGONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Telegony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TELEGONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Telegony

The Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. His name is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca. It was part of the Epic Cycle of poems that recounted the myths not only of the Trojan War but also of the events that led up to and followed the war. The story of the Telegony comes chronologically after that of the Odyssey, and is the final episode in the Epic Cycle. The poem was sometimes attributed in Antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta, but in one source it is said to have been stolen from Musaeus by Eugamon or Eugammon of Cyrene. The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter.

Definition of telegony in the English dictionary

The definition of telegony in the dictionary is the supposed influence of a previous sire on offspring borne by a female to other sires.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TELEGONY


agamogony
ˌæɡəˈmɒɡənɪ
agony
ˈæɡənɪ
anthropogony
ˌænθrəˈpɒɡənɪ
Antigone
ænˈtɪɡənɪ
cosmogony
kɒzˈmɒɡənɪ
garganey
ˈɡɑːɡənɪ
geogony
dʒiːˈɒɡənɪ
heterogony
ˌhɛtəˈrɒɡənɪ
homogony
hɒˈmɒɡənɪ
isogony
aɪˈsɒɡənɪ
jargony
ˈdʒɑːɡənɪ
mahogany
məˈhɒɡənɪ
merogony
mɛˈrɒɡənɪ
monogony
mɒˈnɒɡənɪ
polygony
pəˈlɪɡənɪ
psychogony
saɪˈkɒɡənɪ
schizogony
skɪtˈsɒɡənɪ
sporogony
spɔːˈrɒɡənɪ
theogony
θɪˈɒɡənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TELEGONY

telega
telegenic
telegenically
telegnosis
telegnostic
telegonic
telegonous
Telegonus
telegram
telegrammatic
telegrammic
telegraph
telegraph plant
telegraph pole
telegraph wire
telegrapher
telegraphese
telegraphic
telegraphically
telegraphist

WORDS THAT END LIKE TELEGONY

Antony
balcony
bony
ceremony
colony
ebony
felony
harmony
irony
matrimony
opening ceremony
peony
phony
pile on the agony
pony
stony
symphony
telephony
testimony
tony

Synonyms and antonyms of telegony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «telegony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TELEGONY

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The translations of telegony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «telegony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

先父遗传
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

telegonía
570 millions of speakers

English

telegony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

telegony
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

telegony
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Телегония
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

telegony
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

telegony
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

télégonie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Telegony
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Telegonie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

telegony
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

telegony
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Telegony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

telegony
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

telegony
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दूरध्वनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

telegoni
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

telegony
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

telegony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

телегонія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

telegony
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Telegony
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

telegony
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

telegony
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

telegony
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of telegony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TELEGONY»

The term «telegony» is used very little and occupies the 163.154 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TELEGONY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «telegony» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «telegony» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about telegony

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TELEGONY»

Discover the use of telegony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to telegony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna
Telegony, therefore, demonstrated that the soma and the germ plasm were not separate and that the inheritance of acquired (somatic) characters was entirely possible. Telegony, Spencer had concluded, was "fatal to Weismann's hypothesis" ...
Chandak Sengoopta, 2000
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Encyclopaedia Medica
Telegony. — The term telegony has been applied to the doubtful, certainly rare, but if true very remarkable occurrence of cases where an offspring resembles not so much its father as a previous mate of its mother. In other words, telegony is ...
Chalmers Watson, 1900
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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Some of the firmest early twentieth- century supporters of the maternal impression theory could be found in the early Christian Science movement. A peculiar offspring of the maternal impression creed was telegony, the belief that influences ...
Jan Bondeson, 1997
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The California Countryman
Telegony is the name for the theory that the sperm cell in impregnation not only influences the immediate offspring, but so affects the mother that subsequent offspring will also be influenced. A white woman bears a mulatto child. Subsequently ...
‎1913
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The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope
Objectors to Telegony. Telegony, which was known to the breeders of the domestic animals long before the name was coined, has met with the same reception as in-breeding at the hands of scientists. Professor WeiBmann, who, by the way, ...
Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture, 1901
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British Veterinary Journal
He suggested tuberculosis of the jaw. M. Cagny thought it might be a case of osteitis. M. Almy suggested osteomalacia or osteoporosis. (JR.ec. de Mid. Vet., 30th August 1901.) EXPERIMENTS IN TELEGONY. A red Tamworth sow was served ...
‎1902
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English and American Studies 2008:
[Telegony – Procreation from a distance: Might and magic of the imagination]. Wien: Böhlau, 295 pp., EUR 24.90. Keywords: telegony The Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1911 defines 'Telegony' as “the name now given to the hypothesis that ...
Paul Georg Meyer, 2009
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Queensland Agricultural Journal Volume 5
TELEGONT. What is telegony ? Telegony is a distinct impression of a first impregnation on future progeny of the same sire. The Live Stock Journal says : — The theory of telegony is one upon which scientific opinion is probably pretty equally ...
‎1800
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's ...
Also: Med. Age, Detroit, 1896, xiv, 321-329.— Blak le (j. B.) Telegony; some aspects of the influence of the male in reproduction. Teratología, Lond. & Edlnb., 1895,11, 157-178. — Bolsear* (A.) De la telegonie ou imprégnation maternelle.
National Library of Medicine (U.S.), 1912
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Gleanings in Bee Culture
This, though I hatched over 2u0 chickens. Do our readers wonder that my doubts of the truth of telegony with birds was greatly increased? TELEGONY WITH BEES . With the queen-bee the sperm is always in the spermatheca during her entire ...
‎1905

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TELEGONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term telegony is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ambientato a Cremona il racconto 'Telegony 'della scrittrice inglese …
Il racconto si chiama Telegony, ed è dedicato alla telegonia, ovvero la teoria secondo cui i figli potrebbero avere delle caratteristiche simili a quelle del primo ... «La Provincia, Jul 15»
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Be Careful Who You Sleep With Ladies, Offspring Can Develop …
Historically, the concept of non-genetic inheritance dates back to ancient Greek times, a theory known as telegony. However, telegony was discredited in the ... «The Inquisitr, Jan 15»
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处女情结的生态学解:指角蝇的先父遗传精选
先父遗传(Telegony)是一个极为诡异且饱受争议的概念,亚里士多德早在19世纪便提了出来。先父遗传是指,亲代会继承其母亲前任配偶的特征。由于在人类社会文化 ... «科学时报, Jan 15»
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A Child Can Resemble The Ex-Boyfriends Of A Mother – At least in …
Telegony as a concept budded off the mind of Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher. It had gained quite acclaim during that time, and remained a science up ... «Island Crisis News, Dec 14»
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No fuiste infiel, pero tus hijos se parecen a tu 'ex'...
Hasta hace unas semanas, esto era imposible de explicar con palabras ni justificar científicamente, aunque el término en inglés "telegony" (en español, ... «El Huffington Post, Oct 14»
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“아기가 전 남친을 쏙 빼닮았군요”
지난 9월30일 생태학 전문지 <에콜로지 레터스>에 뉴사우스웨일스대학의 연구진에 의해 초파리에게서 감응유전(Telegony)이 발견됐음을 알리는 연구가 실렸다. «한겨레, Oct 14»
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Ghosts of the Past: Previous Sexual Partners May Determine the …
This confronting idea, known as telegony, had originated with the Greek philosopher Aristotle, but was discredited in the early 20th Century with the advent of ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Oct 14»
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Past sexual partner may decide offspring size: Study
The idea of telegony - that a male can leave a mark on his mate's body that influences her offspring to a different male - originated with the Greek philosopher ... «Economic Times, Oct 14»
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Flies give another twist in the evolving story of heredity
Another theory of inheritance that was discarded with the advent of genetics is telegony – the belief that offspring can inherit characteristics of a previous mate of ... «The Conversation AU, Oct 14»
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先父遗传:孩子长相最像妈妈第一任性伴侣?
先父遗传的英文拼写“telegony”,指一种认为后代能继承父母双方中一方的前任伴侣的特征的学说。它的核心描述是:非处女的女性所生育的子女表现出此前与她们 ... «搜狐, Oct 14»

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