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palingenesis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Palingenesis  \Pal`in*gen"e*sis\,  Palingenesy  \Pal`in*gen"e*sy\, 
  n.  [Gr.  ?;  ?  again  +  ?  birth:  cf  F.  paling['e]n['e]sie.  See 
  {Genesis}.] 
  1.  A  new  birth;  a  re-creation;  a  regeneration;  a  continued 
  existence  in  different  manner  or  form 
 
  2.  (Biol.)  That  form  of  evolution  in  which  the  truly 
  ancestral  characters  conserved  by  heredity  are  reproduced 
  in  development;  original  simple  descent;  --  distinguished 
  from  kenogenesis.  Sometimes  in  zo["o]logy,  the  abrupt 
  metamorphosis  of  insects,  crustaceans,  etc 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  palingenesis 
  n  :  emergence  during  embryonic  development  of  various  characters 
  or  structures  that  appeared  during  the  evolutionary 
  history  of  the  strain  or  species  [syn:  {recapitulation}] 
  [ant:  {cenogenesis}] 




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