animalculist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism. historical
  2. Someone who studies animalcules. obsolete
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to animalculism. historical
    — Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.

词形变化

animalculists plural more animalculist comparative most animalculist superlative

词源

词源 1
From animalcule + -ist.
词源 2
From animalcule + -ist.
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