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pretergenerations

pretergenerations is the plural of pretergeneration.

Meaning of pretergeneration

Noun

pretergeneration (plural pretergenerations)

  1. (rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth
    • In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.1958, Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science: The seventeenth century

Questions about pretergenerations

What is pretergenerations the plural of?
Pretergenerations is the plural of pretergeneration.

Words near pretergenerations in the dictionary

  1. preter-
  2. preter-human
  3. pretercanine
  4. preterfluent
  5. pretergeneration
  6. pretergenerations
  7. pretergite
  8. pretergites
  9. pretergression
  10. preterhuman
  11. preterient

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