MEANING
1. The generation of offspring markedly unlike its parent; in speculative fiction, life arising from an alien or radically unfamiliar source.
2. In biology, reproduction producing offspring unlike the parent in kind or form.
Use it for
Alien-origin life, radically unfamiliar lineages, and the boundary between reproduction and invasion.Use when a story needs a precise term for life emerging from a source unlike ordinary parent-offspring reproduction.
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The novel’s xenogenesis began when the ice sample answered the probe.
The crew feared that the signal marked the start of xenogenesis on the station.
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