Animalculist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Animalculist is a noun meaning (historical) A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
Meaning
(historical) A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Someone who studies animalcules.
- (historical) Pertaining to animalculism.
Example Sentences
Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.
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.
Word Forms
- animalculists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include carnist, animalist, ovist, animatist, asexualist, zoophile.
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