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Showing words for TELEGONY using the English dictionary
8 Letter Words for Telegony
telegony
6 Letter Words for Telegony
gentle, gently, gleety, longee, oyelet
5 Letter Words for Telegony
elegy, eloge, elogy, elong, engle, genet, genty, geoty, gleen, gleet, glene, glent, goety, golee, golet, goney, goyle, lento, leone, leyte, longe, oelet, olent, onely, oylet, teeny, teleg, telyn, tenge, toney, yente, yogee
4 Letter Words for Telegony
eely, egol, elne, engl, enol, ento, eole, eten, eton, eyen, eyne, eyot, geet, gene, genl, gent, geol, glee, glen, gley, gloy, glyn, goel, goen, gole, gone, gony, gote, gyle, gyne, gyte, leet, lege, lene, leng, leno, lent, leon, lete, leto, loge, logy, lone, long, lote, loyn, lyne, lyon, lyte, neet, nete, noel, nole, nolt, note, nyet, ogee, ogle, only, teel, teen, tele, tene, teng, toey, toge, tole, tone, tong, tony, tyee, tyne, yeel, yelt, ygoe, yont, yote
3 Letter Words for Telegony
eeg, eel, een, ego, elt, ene, eng, enl, eon, ety, eye, eyl, eyn, gee, gel, gen, geo, get, gey, glt, gol, gon, got, goy, gte, gye, gyn, lee, leg, leo, let, ley, loe, log, lot, loy, lye, lyn, nee, neg, neo, net, nog, nol, not, noy, nye, ole, one, ont, ony, oye, tee, teg, tel, ten, tgn, tln, tlo, tng, toe, tog, tol, ton, toy, tye, tyg, yee, yen, yeo, yet, ygo, yoe, yon, yot
Definitions for Telegony
[1] a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
[2] genetics the supposed influence of a previous sire on offspring borne by a female to other sires
Words nearby Telegony
teleg., telega, telegenic, telegnosis, telegonus, telegony, telegram, telegraph, telegraph buoy, telegraph plant, telegraphese
Origin of Telegony
First recorded in 1890–95; tele-1 + -gony
Other words from Telegony
tel·e·gon·ic [tel-i-gon -ik] /ˌtɛl ɪˈgɒn ɪk/ , adjective
Word origin for Telegony
C19: from tele- + -gony . Compare Greek tēlegonos ``born far from one's homeland''