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ovulist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ovulist
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A believer in the theory (ovism or ovulism) that an organism is entirely preformed in the egg, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gives the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations are enclosed one within the other.

Etymology

From ovule + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

ovulists (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

preformationism spermism

Synonyms

ovist

Questions

What does ovulist mean?
A believer in the theory (ovism or ovulism) that an organism is entirely preformed in the egg, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gives the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations are enclosed one within the other.
Where does ovulist come from?
From ovule + -ist.

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