| NOUN | process | palingenesis, recapitulation | emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species |
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| Meaning | emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species. | |
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| Synonym | recapitulation | |
| Broader | growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
| Opposite | cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis | 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) |
| Spanish | palingenesia | |
| Catalan | palingenesia | |
| Adjectives | palingenetic | of or relating to palingenesis |
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