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animalculists

animalculists is the plural of animalculist.

Meaning of animalculist

Noun

animalculist (plural animalculists)

  1. (historical) A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
  2. (obsolete) Someone who studies animalcules.
    • 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.1882, “Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 22

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Questions about animalculists

What is animalculists the plural of?
Animalculists is the plural of animalculist.

Words near animalculists in the dictionary

  1. animalcules
  2. animalculine
  3. animalculism
  4. animalculist
  5. animalculistic
  6. animalculists
  7. animalculous
  8. animalculum
  9. animalesque
  10. animalhood
  11. animalian

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