eobiont
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2VERB + EOBIONT
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EOBIONT + NOUN
mulisch
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A hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical precursor to a living organism.
Only when “eobionts”—primordial organisms equipped with a primitive metabolism—began to multiply efficiently was this material used up.
An artificially created creature; a Frankenstein's monster.
In the Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch’s The Procedure, the protagonist Victor Werker is the creator of artificial life in the form of the Eobiont (Mulisch 2001).
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2Only when “eobionts”—primordial organisms equipped with a primitive metabolism—began to multiply efficiently was this material used up.
WiktionaryIn the Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch’s The Procedure, the protagonist Victor Werker is the creator of artificial life in the form of the Eobiont (Mulisch 2001).
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