单词 | ovulist |
释义 | ovulistn. Biology (historical). = ovist n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of origin or development of life animalculist1730 epigenesist1784 vermiculist1784 animalist1800 epigenist1803 ovarist1816 spermatist1836 ovist1838 creationist1856 seminist1857 vitalist1860 monogenist1868 nomogenist1868 panspermist1868 abiogenist1870 heterogenist1870 panspermatist1870 ovulist1879 adaptionist1888 abiogenesist1889 thaumatogenist1891 1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. 37 The Ovulists (Ovists) or Believers in Eggs..maintained that the egg was the real animal germ, and that the seminal animalcules..only gave the impulse which caused the unfolding of the egg in which all generations were encased one in the other. 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 25 So arose the schools of the ovulists, who saw in the spermatozoon a fertilizing element of the ovum, and the spermatists, who thought the ovum or the uterus to be a nidus where the spermatozoon was nourished and developed. 1959 A. Schierbeek Measuring Invisible World iv. 85 The earlier preformationists were all ‘ovulists’, thinking the egg contained the seat of the germ. 1994 M. C. Inhorn Quest for Conception iii. 63 Alexander Hamilton, one such ovulist, declared in 1781 that the child existed in the ovaries and was only excited into life by the ‘seminal worms’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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