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palingenesy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'palingenesy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Palingenesy [ n.]
- A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
- 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 zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.