digenesis Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun alternation of sexual and asexual generations
    metagenesis.

WordNet

Di*gen"e*sis noun
Etymology
Pref. di- + genesis.
Definitions
  1. (Biol.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

Webster 1913