preformation

preformation is a valid 12-letter word worth 19 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends.

Meaning

What does preformation mean?

  • noun

    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

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