theory of preformation

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Noun theory of preformation has 1 sense

preformation, theory of preformation - a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
--₁ is a kind of theory

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