heterogenist
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]heterogenist (plural heterogenists)
- One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.
- 1872, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Beginnings of Life […] :
- M. Pouchet did not believe in what we term Archebiosis , ' and he quite legitimately called himself a heterogenist
References
[edit]- “heterogenist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.