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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine of the origin of life; specifically, the doctrine of spontaneous generation; archebiosis; abiogenesis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

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  • noun biology spontaneous generation; abiogenesis

Etymologies

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See archegonium.

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