Palingenesy n. : A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.Palingenesy n. : That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.Example:Taxonomyexperiments, plant, ashes, salt, particles, body, philosophers, Morley, Martin, seventeenth century, ghosts, powder, Littlefield, gentle heat, apparition, the rose, bizarre experiments, substance.Defination from the web:Palingenesy A term employed by the philosophers of the seventeenth century to denote the 'resurrection of plants,' and the method of achieving their ... In these experiments palingenesy merged with the old theory of spontaneous generation, which was considered to have been solved by ...
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