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(1):

(n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

(2):

(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.