1. (n.) Beginning; creation; formation; origination; as, the genesis of an idea\.

2. (n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

3. (n.) Same as Generation.

abiogenesis accouchement adaptation alpha archigenesis babyhood beginning beginnings biogenesis biological evolution birth birth throes birthing blastogenesis blessed event childbearing childbed childbirth childhood commencement conception confinement cradle dawn dawning delivery derivation development digenesis epigenesis eumerogenesis freshman year generation giving birth grass roots hatching having a baby head heterogenesis histogenesis homogenesis horotely inception inchoation incipience incipiency incunabula infancy isogenesis labor merogenesis metagenesis monogenesis multiparity nascence nascency nativity natural selection ontogenesis ontogeny opening origin original origination orthogenesis outset outstart pangenesis parthenogenesis parturition phylogenesis phylogeny physiogenesis physiogeny pregnancy procreation provenance provenience radical radix rise root setout source spontaneous generation start stem stock tachytely taproot the Nativity the stork travail youth