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
- 1871, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms
Translations
abiogenesis — see abiogenesis
References
- archebiosis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913