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Urschleim

Urschleim noun: primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

Noun

Urschleim (uncountable)

  1. Primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

Origin of Urschleim

From German Urschleim, from ur- + Schleim (“slime”), “primordial slime”.

Questions about Urschleim

What does Urschleim mean?
Urschleim means primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
What part of speech is Urschleim?
Urschleim is a noun.

Words near Urschleim in the dictionary

  1. Ursa Minor
  2. ursal
  3. ursals
  4. ursane
  5. ursanes
  6. Urschleim
  7. urself
  8. urselves
  9. ursene
  10. ursicidal
  11. ursicide

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