1) Biological egg theory
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• (n.) The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoon; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.
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O'vism noun [
Ov um +
- ism .]
(Zoology) The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed to
spermism or
animalculism .
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/60
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