English Explanatory Dictionary

ovulist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A believer in the theory (ovism or ovulism) that an organism is entirely preformed in the egg, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gives the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations are enclosed one within the other.

Word forms

ovulist ovulists

Etymology

From ovule + -ist.

Synonyms

ovist
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