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Regrow

Regrow \Re*grow"\ (r?*gr?"), v. i. & t. To grow again.

The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.]
--A. B. Buckley.

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regrow

vb. To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed.

WordNet
regrow

v. grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption; "parts of the trunk of this tree can regrow"; "some invertebrates can regrow limbs or their tail after they lost it due to an injury"

Usage examples of "regrow".

Transcendent enhancements, but when the refitting was complete, the ship would be something extraordinary: Now it floated in a golden haze of structors, billions of tiny robots regrowing sections of the hull into the characteristic form of a bottom lugger.

How could trees ungrow like that, and suddenly regrow as the clearing moved on?

Clemantine did the same thing, and Nikko went even farther, regrowing his body only in the rare intervals when he desired a physical incarnation.

And like Capo, a chimplike ape of a different time, her kind had regrown their hair and forgotten how to sweat.

Juniko the Original did have some good points, so his joint executioners agreed to reincarnate him via clonage and, opting for a nonparanoid Juniko the Second, a part of him was preserved and regrown after his assisted demise.

Ananile shots to retard aging, regrowing limbs and organs, meddling with genes, but still no cure for the common cold.

His crew evidently held him in some regard for they had brought him across five starfields to the Advanced Medical Center on Clur in the hope that the Medics could regrow his leg.

Perhaps if crew cuts ever come back and beards disappear I will regrow my own.

We gave them the scent of orchids, the talents of electric fish, the ability to regenerate lost appendages the way lizards regrow tails.

It reached, then, two pseudopodia toward its recently regrown optic organs.

The pelt regrows quickly, the paste tastes like mild fish, and it provides substantial protein.

Northern and western Europe has been spared this fate, not because its inhabitants have been wiser but because they have had the good luck to live in a more robust environment with higher rainfall, in which vegetation regrows quickly.

The defenses have been regrown and resown with plants that cannot burn.

He and Cabell and the Zor-clone, Rem, harvesting the Flower of Life from Optera's regrown fields, coaxing the secret of the Shapings from its trifoliate core, creating a matrix of their own design.