テレゴニー

noun

telegony

A discredited biological theory that a female's offspring can inherit characteristics from a previous mate. Used in historical or pseudoscientific contexts.

• テレゴニーは19世せい紀きに広ひろく信しんじられていたが、現げん在ざいでは否ひ定ていされている。

  Telegony was widely believed in the 19th century, but it is now rejected.