| 释义 |
pal·in·gen·e·sis
\ˌpalə̇nˈjenəsə̇s\ noun
Etymology: Greek palin again + Latin genesis birth — more at genesis
: renewal by or as if by rebirth: as
a. : Christian baptism
b. : the doctrine of continued rebirths : metempsychosis
c. [German, from Greek palin + Latin genesis] : reproduction during development of characters or structures that have been maintained essentially unchanged throughout the phylogeny of a strain : recapitulation — opposed to cenogenesis; compare recapitulation theory
d. : the formation of new rocks by the re-fusion of former rocks deep within the earth |