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theory of preformation

 
Noun theory of preformation has 1 sense
  1. 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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