preformationist

English

Etymology

From preformation +‎ -ist.

Noun

preformationist (plural preformationists)

1. (biology, historical) A proponent of the theory of preformationism. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 219:

     Preformationists rejoined that Harveian epigenesis was unscientific, for such a virtue could not be observed.

Translations

a proponent of the theory of preformationism

• Portuguese: preformista m or f