archebiosis

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noun

The origination of living matter from non-living; abiogenesis.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounarchebiosis (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe origination of living matter from non-living; abiogenesis.

    the possibility of Bacteria arising by a process of Archebiosis

    1871, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms
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