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preformation

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pre=for=ma=tion

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun preformation has 1 sense

preformation(n = noun.cognition) 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; Array

is a kind of theory

Derived form verb preform₂

CIDE DICTIONARY

preformation, n.

An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Embo. [1913 Webster]

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