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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abiogenesis \Ab`i*o*gen"e*sis\, n. [Gr. 'a priv. + ? life + ?, origin, birth.] (Biol.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also {abiogeny}, and opposed to {biogenesis}. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. --Huxley, 1870. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: abiogenesis n : a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter [syn: {autogenesis}, {autogeny}, {spontaneous generation}]
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