palingenesis : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: palingenesis	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
palingenesis n emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species Synonym(s): palingenesis, recapitulation Antonym(s): caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Palingenesis \Pal`ingen"esis\, Palingenesy \Pal`ingen"esy\, n. [Gr. [?]; [?] again + [?] birth: cf. F. paling[82]n[82]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[94]logy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.