Associations to the word «Preformation»
Noun
- Bonnet
- Albrecht
- Gottfried
- Microscope
- Embryo
- Reproduction
- Theory
- Ernst
- Georg
- Generation
- Newton
- Friedrich
- Harvey
- Probability
- Johann
- Doctrine
- Organism
- Eve
- Psychology
- Theology
- Scientist
- Egg
- Von
- Index
- Philosophy
- Animal
- Discovery
- Medicine
- Revolution
- Concept
- Existence
- Nature
- Principle
- Century
- Joseph
- Science
- Charles
- Van
- Individual
- Academy
- Development
- Process
- Account
- Body
- Idea
- Plant
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- La
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- William
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Wiktionary
PREFORMATION, noun. Prior formation.
PREFORMATION, noun. (biology) (historical) The theory that organisms are fully developed in the form of an egg or seed, and just increase in size (as opposed to epigenesis.
Dictionary definition
PREFORMATION, noun. 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.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.