archebiosis

English

Noun

archebiosis (uncountable)

1. (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

Translations

abiogenesis — see abiogenesis

References

• “archebiosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.