English Explanatory Dictionary

emboîtement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The outdated hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, enclosed one within another.

Word forms

emboîtement

Etymology

From French emboîtement.

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