Hypertext Webster Gateway: "palingenesis"
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) 1.7 (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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