PALINGENESIS


Meaning of PALINGENESIS in English

ˌpalə̇nˈjenəsə̇s noun

Etymology: Greek palin again + Latin genesis birth — more at genesis

: renewal by or as if by rebirth: as

a. : Christian baptism

b. : the doctrine of continued rebirths : metempsychosis

c.

[German, from Greek palin + Latin genesis ]

: reproduction during development of characters or structures that have been maintained essentially unchanged throughout the phylogeny of a strain : recapitulation — opposed to cenogenesis ; compare recapitulation theory

d. : the formation of new rocks by the re-fusion of former rocks deep within the earth

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