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- German · borrowed fromUrschleim
- English todayUrschleim
From German Urschleim, from ur- + Schleim (“slime”), “primordial slime”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Full definition →
From German Urschleim, from ur- + Schleim (“slime”), “primordial slime”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.