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))
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