Meaning of animalculist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
   historical
2. Someone who studies animalcules.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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