Genesis

n.	1.
	1.	The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination. The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club. - Carlyle.
	2.	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.	(Geom.) Same as Generation.

Noun	1.	genesis - a coming into being Synonyms: generation
	2.	Genesis - the first book of the Old Testament: tells of creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers Synonyms: Book of Genesis

abiogenesis, accouchement, adaptation, alpha, archigenesis, babyhood, beginning, beginnings, biogenesis, biological evolution, 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, original, origination, orthogenesis, outset, outstart, pangenesis, parthenogenesis, parturition, phylogenesis, phylogeny, physiogenesis, physiogeny, pregnancy, procreation, provenance, provenience, radical, radix, rise, setout, spontaneous generation, start, stem, stock, tachytely, taproot, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth

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