respecify
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respecify (third-person singular simple present respecifies, present participle respecifying, simple past and past participle respecified)
- To specify again; to alter an earlier specification
- 1976, J.W. Truman, S.E. Reiss, “Dendritic reorganization of an identified motoneuron during metamorphosis of the tobacco hornworm moth”, in Science[1], volume 192, number 4238:
- In the tobacco hornworm, many larval motoneurons become respecified and supply new muscles in the adult.