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rejuvenescence

rejuvenescence


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rejuvenescence  \Re*ju`ve*nes"cence\  (-n?s"sens),  n. 
  1.  A  renewing  of  youth;  the  state  of  being  or  growing  young 
  again 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  A  method  of  cell  formation  in  which  the  entire 
  protoplasm  of  an  old  cell  escapes  by  rupture  of  the  cell 
  wall,  and  then  develops  a  new  cell  wall.  It  is  seen 
  sometimes  in  the  formation  of  zo["o]spores,  etc