telegonies
/tɪˈlɛɡəniz/
noun
- Plural of telegony; instances or theories of the supposed influence of a previous mate on the offspring of a later mate.
- No credible evidence supports any of the telegonies described in old texts.
- Historians of science study telegonies as examples of discarded biological ideas.
- The book cataloged various telegonies proposed by pre-Mendelian scientists.