cosmozoan

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  1. An imaginary organism transported to the earth from some unknown region of the cosmos. [Rare.] It [life] was transported to the earth from another world, or from the cosmic environment, under the form of cosmic germs, or cosmozoans, more or less comparable to the living cells with which we are acquainted. Smithsonian Rep., 1902, p. 401.

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  1. Greek κόσμος, the universe, + ζῷον, a living being, + -an.
 

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