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Self-regenerating

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Self-regenerating is an adjective meaning (rare, physics, biology) Capable of regenerating itself or oneself.

Meaning

(rare, physics, biology) Capable of regenerating itself or oneself.

Example Sentences

The self-regenerating liver may not be exhausted even through thirty thousand years. Idea foresees that, however persistent may be any beautiful form, every form is temporary.
In that country as in France there are a few illustrious exceptions, and symbols of a self-regenerating age; symptoms of a gradual return from error, and the invincible power and majesty of truth.
But even granting that this self-regenerating energy were as vigorous as formerly, and that it has not more to do battle with now than heretofore, there is another and more serious question behind.
Among the countless substances formed by the lightnings, enzymes appeared and still later self-regenerating enzymes. Some of these were also washed into the ocean where inert organic material wras already piled up. Eventually enzymatic chemical reactions started in the sea.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regeneratable, regenerable, self-replicating, regeneratory, self-perpetuating, self-regulating.

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