heterogenist

English

Noun

heterogenist (plural heterogenists)

1. One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.
   • 1872, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Beginnings of Life […] :

     M. Pouchet did not believe in what we term Archebiosis , ' and he quite legitimately called himself a heterogenist

References

• “heterogenist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.