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palingenetic
Variant of palingenesis
noun
- a new birth; regeneration
- metempsychosis
- that phase in the development of an individual plant or animal which theoretically repeats the evolutionary history of the taxonomic group to which it belongs; recapitulation
Related Forms:
- palingenetic adjective
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