Meaning of eobiont | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical precursor to a living organism.
2. An artificially created creature; a Frankenstein's monster.

Examples

“Only when “eobionts”—primordial organisms equipped with a primitive metabolism—began to multiply efficiently was this material used up.”

“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).”

CEFR level