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Noun Synset: 105992949

Words: preformation, theory_of_preformation

Gloss: a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell

hypernym 105989479 - theory
derivationally related 201660082 - preform

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