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 Res·ur·rec·tion 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.   --Milton.
 3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
    In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage.   --Matt. xxii. 30.
 4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
    I am the resurrection, and the life.   --John xi. 25.
 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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 Selaginella lepidophylla
      n : densely tufted fern ally of southwestern United States to
          Peru; curls up in a tight ball when dry and expands and
          grows under moist conditions [syn: resurrection plant,
          rose of Jericho]