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Anlage

noun
(pl. anlagen)
1.
An organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development.  Synonym: primordium.






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"Anlage" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had proved for the appendages of plants he extended to all living things. Every living thing is a complex of living independent beings, which "der Idee, der Anlage nach," are the same, but in appearance may be the same or similar, different or unlike.[80] Not only is there a primordial animal and a primordial plant, schematic forms to which all separate species are referable, but the parts of each are themselves units, ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell



Words linked to "Anlage" :   organ, primordium



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