English Explanatory Dictionary

telegony

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.

Word forms

telegony

Etymology

From tele- + -gony.

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