recapitulated

Went over again

Recapitulated is the past tense of recapitulate, meaning to summarize or restate the main points of something: She recapitulated the argument before moving on.

In biology, recapitulated describes how an organism's development mirrors stages in its evolutionary history: The embryo recapitulated ancestral forms.

The word implies condensed repetition of something already presented at length.

summarized

restated

Expressed again differently

condensedMade more compact
summarizedRestated in fewer words
synopsisCondensed version of content

outline · digest · overview · précis · encapsulated · abstracted · epitomized · compressed · distilled · abbreviated

repeated

reiterated

Expressed again, often emphatically

echoedReflected sound waves
reproducedMade a copy of
replicatedMade an identical copy

mirrored · duplicated · copied · reaffirmed · reasserted · revisited · rehashed · replayed · redone · retraced

biological

ontogeny

Individual's developmental history

phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
embryonicAt earliest developmental stage
developmentalRelated to growth stages

Haeckel · evolutionary · stages · embryogenesis · fetal · gestation · morphogenesis · ancestral · organism · biogenetic

Opposites

brevity vs. elaboration

recapitulatedelaborated

Developed in greater detail

expanded · amplified · developed · expounded · fleshed out

repetition vs. novelty

recapitulatedoriginated

First came into existence

introduced · innovated · initiated · pioneered · created

concluding review vs. initial presentation

recapitulatedintroduced

Made formally acquainted

prefaced · opened · began · commenced · previewed

Family

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