spontaneous generation
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spontaneous generation (countable and uncountable, plural spontaneous generations)
- (evolutionary theory, historical) The fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters.
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