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.
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Animalculist
//anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst//
Synonyms for "animalculist"
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1 entries- animalculista noun (believer in the theory of animalculism)
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Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.
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