05992949-n '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';
 
Chinese (simplified) 预成说
English preformation ( ⊳ ) , theory of preformation
Japanese 前成説
Definitions
Japanese
生殖細胞の中に存在する小さく完全に形成された生物（こびと）の単純な拡大によって個人が発育するという（18世紀に一般的であったが、現在信じられていない）理論
English
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
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Hypernym: theory
Semantic Field: cognitionn
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