PALINGENESIS; PALINGENESY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

2.
n.

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 zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.