Ovist

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ovist \O"vist\, n. (Zool.)
     A believer in ovism. Same as {Ovulist}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Ovulist \O"vu*list\, n. (Biol.)
     A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current
     during the last century, that the egg was the real animal
     germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa
     simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the
     egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the
     other. Also called {ovist}.
     [1913 Webster]