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ovist Biol.|ˈəʊvɪst|
[f. as ov-ism + -ist: in mod.F. oviste (Littré).]
One who holds the theory of ovism: opp. to spermist or animalculist. (Also ovarist, ovulist.) So oˈvistic a.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 427/1 According to..the Ovists, the female parent is held to afford all the materials necessary for the formation of the offspring. 1889Geddes & Thomson Evol. Sex vii. 84 A..controversy..between two schools, who called each other ‘ovists’ and ‘animalculists’. The former maintained that the female germ element was the more important, and only required to be as it were awakened by the male element to begin the process of unfolding. 1893Virchow in Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 7/1 The great gap was closed which Harvey's ovistic theory had left in the history of new growth. |