heterogenist

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noun

One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.

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Meanings

nounheterogenist (plural heterogenists)

plural heterogenists

  1. One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.

    M. Pouchet did not believe in what we term Archebiosis , ' and he quite legitimately called himself a heterogenist

    1872, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Beginnings of Life […]
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