palingenesis
noun
rebirth; regeneration.
palingenetic
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a word derived from
palingenesis.
Example Sentences
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The Gastraea bilateralis, of which we may conceive the bilateral gastrula of the amphioxus to be a palingenetic reproduction, represented the two-sided organism of the earliest Metazoa in its simplest form.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
In order to appreciate this important feature, we have distributed the embryological phenomena in two groups, palingenetic and cenogenetic.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Nevertheless, it is not difficult to reduce the whole cenogenetic or disturbed development of this amphigastrula to the true palingenetic formation of the archigastrula of the amphioxus.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The gastrula stage was the palingenetic repetition of the ancestral form of all Metazoa, the Gastræa.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
We may take as an illustration the palingenetic segmentation and germinal layer-formation in an eight-fold insular coral, which I discovered in the Red Sea, and described as Monoxenia Darwinii.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
