| preformation |
a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
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| preformation t. |
the outmoded theory that the individuals of successive generations are contained, completely formed, within the reproductive cell of one of the parents.
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| preformationist |
a believer in the theory of preformation.
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