protolife
noun
Complex organic forms thought to represent the stage immediately prior to the evolution of the first living organisms.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in BioScience.
- plesiadapoid
- Plesianthropus
- plesiaster
- plesiochronous
- plesiochronous digital hierarchy
- plesiomorphic
- plesiomorphous
- plesiomorphy
- plesiosaur
- plesiosaurian
- plesiosauroid
- Plesiosaurus
- plessimeter
- plessite
- plessor
- plet
- plethodontid
- plethora
- plethoric
- plethorical
- plethorically
- plethory
- plethron
- plethysmogram
- plethysmograph