archebiosis
English edit
Noun edit
archebiosis (uncountable)
- (biology) The origination of living matter from non-living; abiogenesis.
- 1871, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms:
- the possibility of Bacteria arising by a process of Archebiosis
Translations edit
abiogenesis — see abiogenesis
References edit
- “archebiosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.