Re*ju`ve*nes"cence (-n?s"sens), n.

1.

A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.

2. Bot.

A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zospores, etc.

 

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