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, “Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 22:
- 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.
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.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed 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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