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English noun: theory of preformation | |||
| 1. | theory of preformation (cognition) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | preformation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | theory | ||
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