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eobionts

eobionts is the plural of eobiont.

Meaning of eobiont

Noun

eobiont (plural eobionts)

  1. A hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical precursor to a living organism.
    • Only when “eobionts”—primordial organisms equipped with a primitive metabolism—began to multiply efficiently was this material used up.1993, Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler, Laws of the Game http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0691025665&id=DPhl9EjQ86gC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=eobionts&sig=0HMykNhJ2ubrM_DhG_Mkf1hYoN8
  2. An artificially created creature; a Frankenstein's monster.
    • In the Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch’s The Procedure, the protagonist Victor Werker is the creator of artificial life in the form of the Eobiont (Mulisch 2001).2003, Michael Cronin, Translation and Globalization http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0691025665&id=DPhl9EjQ86gC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=eobionts&sig=0HMykNhJ2ubrM_DhG_Mkf1hYoN8

Questions about eobionts

What is eobionts the plural of?
Eobionts is the plural of eobiont.

Words near eobionts in the dictionary

  1. Eoarchean
  2. EOB
  3. eobaatarid
  4. eobaatarids
  5. eobiont
  6. eobionts
  7. eobiotic
  8. eobiotics
  9. EOC
  10. eocardiid
  11. eocardiids

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