archebiosis

English

Noun

archebiosis (uncountable)

(biology) The origination of living matter from non-living; abiogenesis.
- 1871, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms:
  the possibility of Bacteria arising by a process of Archebiosis

Translations

abiogenesis — see abiogenesis

References

“archebiosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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