redescribe
verb
re·de·scribe
ˌrē-di-ˈskrīb 
redescribed; redescribing; redescribes
: to describe anew or again
especially
: to give a new and more complete description to (a biological taxon)
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The exquisite remains allowed scientists to redescribe the species since Hallucigenia’s important head and mouth features were observable.
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Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2015
Her own project is not to erase those incisions—or even, as a child might hope, to heal them—but to retrace and redescribe them.
—Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2015
Her own project is not to erase those incisions—or even, as a child might hope, to heal them—but to retrace and redescribe them.
—Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
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First Known Use
1806, in the meaning defined above
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