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Palingenesis

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Noun

1. palingenesis, recapitulation

emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

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Palingenesis

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noun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)
1. Christianity
spiritual rebirth through metempsychosis of Christian baptism
2. biology another name for recapitulation (sense 2)

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Palingenesis

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noun
1. 
a new birth; regeneration
2. 
metempsychosis
3. 
that phase in the development of an individual plant or animal which theoretically repeats the evolutionary history of the taxonomic group to which it belongs; recapitulation
see also cenogenesis

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Palingenesis

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n. pl. pal·in·gen·e·ses (-sēz′)
1. The doctrine of transmigration of souls; metempsychosis.
2. The supposed repetition by an organism during its embryonic development of the stages in the evolution of its species, as asserted by the discredited biogenetic law.

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