emboîtement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 The outdated hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, enclosed one within another. historical,uncountable
    — [R]ivals professed to see an equivalent in the semen, giving rise to the ‘preformation’ or emboîtement theories which contended that the new individual was completely developed as a tiny homunculus from the moment of conception.

词源

From French emboîtement.
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