Search Result：theory of preformation
theory of preformation 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun theory_of_preformation
The 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)