Urschleim

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

Word forms

Urschleim

Etymology

From German Urschleim, from ur- + Schleim (“slime”), “primordial slime”.

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