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Resurrection plant   /rˌɛzərˈɛkʃən plænt/   Listen
noun
Resurrection  n.  
1.
A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
2.
Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment. "Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth."
3.
State of being risen from the dead; future state. "In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage."
4.
The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead. "I am the resurrection, and the life."
Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars.
Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as Selaginella convoluta and Selaginella lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.






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