PALINGENESIS (palingeneses)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: 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)

Sense 1

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 (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution))

Derivation:

palingenetic (of or relating to palingenesis)