PALINGENESIS (palingeneses)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does palingenesis mean? 

• PALINGENESIS (noun)
  The noun PALINGENESIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PALINGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALINGENESIS (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

palingenesis; recapitulation

Hypernyms ("palingenesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Antonym:

cenogenesis (introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution))