animalculist — ozdic

Collocations

2

ADJ.

rival, unexpected

ANIMALCULIST + NOUN

s, school, spermatozoa

Definitions

noun

1

A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.

2

Someone who studies animalcules.

All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was Schleiden.

adj

1

Pertaining to animalculism.

Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.

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Example Bank

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01

All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was S

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02

Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.

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Usage Notes

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