Michurinistadj.n.

1946 Amer. Naturalist 80 241/1 Lysenko's book was first published in 1943... Its purpose is to justify his own point of view, often referred to as ‘Michurinist’ after a Russian pomologist.

1949 C. Zirkle Death of Sci. in Russia vii. 174 The most advanced, materialistic, biological science is the Michurinist trend in the Soviet agrobiology.

1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxviii. 100 In 1948 it was the turn of the biologists, and a number of them were deprived of their posts for supporting Weissmann–Morganist as opposed to Michurinist genetics.

1969 Science 27 June 1507/2 A canny charlatan was given the power to impose his ‘progressive Michurinist biology’ as an obligatory creed.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Dec. 31/1 Films and newsreels on the Exhibition, inevitably featured ‘amazing Michurinist fruits’ that would hasten the advent of communism.

1949 Ann. Reg. 1948 210 The Michurinists, who regarded environment as the chief determinant of heredity.

1951 World Politics 3 491 Soviet biologists. followers of Michurin, are called ‘Michurinists’.

1955 Science 121 1/2 Another view, which has been revived by the so-called ‘Michurinists’ of the Iron Curtain countries,..postulated a general adaptive ability in living things.