animalculist
English
Etymology
From animalcule + -ist.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/
Noun
animalculist (plural animalculists)
- (historical) A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism. [from 18th c.]
- (obsolete) Someone who studies animalcules. [19th c.]
- 1882, Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden
- All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was Schleiden.
- 1882, Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden
Translations
believer in the theory of animalculism
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someone who studies animalcules
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Adjective
animalculist (comparative more animalculist, superlative most animalculist)
- (historical) Pertaining to animalculism. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:
- Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.
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Romanian
Etymology
From French animalculiste.
Declension
Declension of animalculist
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) animalculist | animalculistul | (niște) animalculiști | animalculiștii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) animalculist | animalculistului | (unor) animalculiști | animalculiștilor |
| vocative | animalculistule | animalculiștilor | ||
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