ovism
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ovum (“egg”) + -ism.
Noun
editovism (uncountable)
- (now historical) The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo. [from 19th c.]
- 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 238:
- Above all, ovism seems to us utterly impossible: how could every human being that ever existed or ever will exist be contained, fully formed, within Eve's ovaries?
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editovism n (uncountable)
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